Alaska CLIA Waived Testing for Physician Office Laboratories - Brochure
Author: dlthompson
Keywords: CLIA; Certificate of Waiver; waived testing; product inserts; requirements; physician office laboratory personnel; CLIA waived testing

CLIA Waived Testing for Physician Office Laboratories \Office Laboratories

Choose the location that works best for you (Anchorage, Juneau, or Fairbanks). Learn about the CLIA requirement for waived testing and how to apply good laboratory practices. Classes will be interactive with plenty of time to ask questions. Participants will receive a training binder with valuable resource materials to take back to their laboratories. There will be group exercises to practice what you have learned.

Doris Thompson,
PhD, MT (ASCP)

This education is funded by a training grant from the Association of Public Health Laboratories to the Alaska State Public Health Laboratory-Anchorage and the CLIA Program in Alaska.
Address:
Doris Thompson, CLIA Program
AK State Public Health Laboratory
5455 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.
Anchorage, Alaska 99507
Phone: (907) 334-2583
Fax: (907) 334-2161
E-mail: doris.thompson@alaska.gov

Funded by the Association of Public Health Laboratories

CLIA Waived Testing for Physician Office
Laboratories

A Training Grant to the Alaska State Public Health Laboratory-Anchorage & the CLIA Program in Alaska

Has 10 years experience as a CLIA surveyor for the State of Alaska

Francisca Lehr, MS, MT (ASCP)

Has 24 years experience as laboratory inspector and regional CLIA consultant

OSOM® is a registered trademark of Sekisui Diagnostics, LLC.

Take Advantage of This Opportunity!

Here is a chance for Physician Office Laboratory (POL) personnel to learn what CLIA requires for Certificate of Waiver (COW) testing. You will also learn about good laboratory practices that will assure accurate patient test results. The 3-hour training sessions (in 3 locations) will be from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm with a half-hour break from 10:30 am to 11:00 am. Attendees will receive training binders to use in their laboratories.

The program includes:
PowerPoint presentation
FDA waived criteria, list, & website
Manufacturers’ product inserts
Group exercises
Results of pilot studies on waived testing
State surveyor questionnaire
A CMS CLIA brochure on how to obtain a CLIA Certificate of Waiver
116 application
CDC resource booklet entitled, “Ready?, Set?,
Test!”

There will be drawings/prizes for business binders similar to the one shown above.

Make your reservations for one of the 3 locations (your preference) by mailing, faxing, or e-mailing the reservation form in the accompanying letter:
Jan. 21, 2012; 9:00am-12:30pm
Captain Cook Hotel
939 W. 5th Ave.
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
Feb. 18, 2012; 9:00am-12:30pm
Westmark Baranof Hotel
127 North Franklin Street
Juneau, Alaska 99801
April 21, 2012; 9:00am-12:30pm
Westmark Hotel
813 Noble Street
Fairbanks, Alaska 99701

Your invitation and a reminder:
All participants are invited to a vendor show as part of the Clinical Laboratory Scientists of Alaska (CLSA) annual conference on March 28-29, 2012 at the Sheraton Hotel in Anchorage. Come and meet the company representatives.
Please make your reservations early since reservations will be on a “first come, first serve” basis.
The overall goal of this training is to improve the quality of CLIA waived testing among POL personnel in COW labs found in Alaska.