Newly Established Medical and Public Health Laboratory Coalition to Tackle Workforce Shortages
ASCP has joined with more than 20 national and regional laboratory, pathology, and other healthcare associations to launch the Medical and Public Health Laboratory Workforce Coalition, which will work toward building a robust, more diverse medical laboratory workforce. Read
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Graduate Medical Education, Immigration Changes Needed to Address Workforce Issues, ASCP Says
ASCP continues to urge the federal government to help address the workforce issues affecting pathologists and laboratory professionals. ASCP recently wrote congressional leaders about Graduate Medical Education and immigration issues affecting the pathologist and laboratory professional workforce. Read
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ASCP Supports FDA Final Guidance on Blood Donor Assessment
ASCP applauds the recently released FDA final guidance which implements a shift toward Individual Donor Assessment to determine blood donor eligibility criteria, which will remove biases in former policy. ASCP supports the shift as it expands access to blood donation formerly unavailable to some members of the LGBTQ+ community, representing a step toward greater equity in the healthcare system. Read
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Pathologists’, Laboratory Professionals’ Remote Review of Digital Images Maintained by CMS
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has clarified that pathologists and other laboratory personnel may continue to review digital laboratory data remotely after the conclusion of the Public Health Emergency. Read
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Register for June 9 Webinar: Learn How Academia Can Support Pandemic Responses
Join us on June 9 for a webinar in the new series, Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community, hosted by ASCP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Learn how the Physics Department at Texas State University, in Austin, devised an innovative strategy to help the city of Austin address a widespread supply chain bottleneck involving access to nasal swab early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Read
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