CLMA TRILLIUM CHAPTER DISCUSSION PAPER
MESSAGE FROM THE CLMA TRILLIUM CHAPTER PRESIDENT
Dear Fellow Laboratory Stakeholders:
As healthcare is entering into a new era of preventative and predictive medicine (“Health for All”), it is faced with formidable challenges: Funding, Capacity, and Health Human Resources. As most of us appreciate, challenges open new prospects for change and innovations.
The Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA) Trillium Chapter supports and advocates for laboratory leaders and the laboratory medicine profession at the management level. Our Board Members are all leaders within Ontario’s Healthcare system. As leaders, we would like to initiate some discussion amongst laboratory stakeholders on proposing a new Education/Career Path Model as part of our human resource strategy. We feel that radical and innovative changes are needed to sustain and enhance the level of laboratory services that we have all worked to provide.
Laboratory medicine is at the forefront of medical advances. There has been a remarkable growth in the laboratory environment with respect to complexity of available tests, equipment, techniques, and services. It is predicted that clinical laboratory technology will play an even greater role in the future delivery of healthcare.
Our objective is “Sustainability in Laboratory Human Resources”: To establish the right mix of talents, education, and expertise in the laboratories for the good of all patient care.
This Discussion Paper outlines the impact laboratory medicine has made on healthcare and the implication on diminishing human resources as the current workforce approaches retirement age. It demonstrates the basis of the proposed Education/Career Path Model, and promotes stakeholder engagement. The feedback that we receive from this Discussion Paper will be used to draft a Position Paper which will set out a comprehensive laboratory human resource strategy and actions for laboratory medicine.
I encourage all laboratory stakeholders to take the opportunity to participate in the discussion and express your ideas on how we could shape our future and influence the generations to come. Your comments on this Discussion Paper or responses to the questions posed on page 5 of the paper are invited by November 30, 2009."
Sincerely,
Bonnie Reib
President,
CLMA Trillium Chapter
Click Here to download the Discussion Paper.
CLMA Trillium Chapter
Preanalytical Excellence Award
The Atlantic, Fleur-de-Lys and Trillium Chapters of the CLMA, together with BD Canada invite Canadian members of the CLMA, who have undertaken initiatives to improve patient safety and quality in the preanalytical phase of testing to apply for this award.
The successful applicant (individual or team) will receive a cash prize of $1500 and an etched glass trophy to recognize the achievement.
Click here to learn more about the award and how to apply.
Application form (WORD format)
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Application deadline is February 28, 2011.
Congratulations to Halton Healthcare Services - 2010 Preanalytics Exelence Award Winner and to Sunnybrook Health Centre - 2010 Honorable Mention Winner
There were 4 submissions for the 2010 Pre-Analytic Excellence Award.
Halton Healthcare
Implementation of Electronic Positive Patient Identification for Specimen Collection - An Enabler for Improving Patient Safety and Achieving Preanalytic Excellence
Integrated Hospital Laboratories of Windsor-Essex
Unacceptable Specimens Received by the Laboratory
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Pre-lab Clinical Systems Improvement
William Osler Health Centre
A Centralized Model for Phlebotomy in the ED at Brampton Civic Hospital
Congratulations Calgary Laboratory Services - 2009 Winner
There were 4 submissions for the 2009 Pre-Analytic Excellence Award.
Calgary Laboratory Services
VISUAL MANAGEMENT VISUAL MANAGEMENT IN PRE IN PRE--ANALYTICAL ANALYTICAL CENTRIFUGE WORKFLOW
Hospital for Sick Children
Guide to Child Friendly Blood Collection Procedures
LifeLabs
ColonCancerCheck Program
Mount Sinai Hospital
Measuring the Benefits and Continuing Challenges of Preanalytical Automation and Analyser Consolidation in the Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory
Congratulations to Calgary Laboratory Services - 2009 Preanalytics Exelence Award Winner
The 2008 Preanalytical Excellence Award recipients were:
Glen Dietz
Don Manning
Barry Vermeersch
Their award was based on a series of collaborative projects between London Laboratory Services Group and Brantford General Hospital which defined, measured, monitored and responded to variables in specimen quality.
Download presentations that describe some of these initiatives
Benchmarking Specimen Quality
Using Specimen Markers to Improve Specimen Quality and Reduce Preanalytical Errors
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