From Compliance to Quality:
How Does Your POCT
Measure Up?

Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:30 am - 3:30 pm



Community Hospital Education Center
2615 E. High Street, Springfield, OH
Agenda
8:30am-9:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am-10:00am CLIA Rule Update
Lucille Raabe, MT(ASCP) SH, ODH-BDSPC/PSCU, Columbus, OH
10:00am-10:15am Break
10:15am-10:45am Conclusion from Lucille Raabe with Q&A time
10:45 am-12:00pm Applying 6 Sigma Metrics to POCT
Carol Gleason, MT(ASCP), M.Ed., Community Hospital, Springfield, OH
12:00pm-12:45pm Lunch
12:45pm-2:15pm Preparing Your Point-of-Care Testing
for a CAP Accreditation Inspection
Patricia Darnell, MA, MT(ASCP), College of American Pathologists,
Laboratory Accreditation, Northfield, IL
2:15pm-2:30pm Break
2:30pm-3:00pm 2005 CAP Services and Products
Kathy Mortell, CAP Client Relation/Marketing Group
3:00pm-3:30pm Group Business, Planning, and Q&A
Meeting Objectives
Participants will be able to:
  • Understand the latest CLIA Rule updates
  • Understand the major areas inspectors examine in the CAP POCT
    inspection and how to prepare
  • Understand the required elements for POCT policies and procedures.
  • Understand new and or changing POCT requirements
  • Learn to Implement 6 Sigma Metrics on POC instruments
  • Define quality requirement, determine instrument performance, implement appropriate QC, save time, reagents and money

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Registration
RSVP by Email to: tracye.cross@communityhospital.com
  • Please describe your upmost nagging POC question and fax or Email with
    your registration so we are sure to address it at the meeting.
     
  • This meeting is sponsored by ITC and Osmotech with lunch provided by
    PrimeSource and Medtonic

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Directions
From the North
  • Take I-75 South to I-70 East
  • Take S. Charleston exit (59) which is route 41
  • Turn left onto route 41
  • Continue until you see the hospital on your left side
  • Turn left at the hospital onto Burnett Rd
  • Parking is on the right, directly across from the hospital and the Education Center, which is in between the hospital and the School of Nursing. Enter through the Ed. Center

From the South
 

  • Take I-75 North to I-675 North
  • Take I-70 East
    Take S. Charleston exit (59) which is route 41
  • Turn left onto route 41
    Continue until hospital appears on your left
  • Turn left at hospital onto Burnett Rd
  • Parking is on the right, directly across from the hospital and the Education Center, which is in between the hospital and the School of Nursing. Enter through the Ed. Center

From the East

  • Take I-70 West
  • Take S. Charleston exit (59) which is route 41
  • Turn right onto route 41
  • Continue until hospital appears on your left
  • Turn left at the hospital onto Burnett Rd
  • Parking is on the right, across from the hospital and the Education
    Center, which is in between the hospital and the School of Nursing. Enter through the Ed. Center

From the West

  • Take I-70 East
  • Take S. Charleston exit (59) which is route 41
  • Turn left onto route 41
  • Continue until hospital appears on your left
  • Turn left at the hospital onto Burnett Rd
  • Parking is on the right, across from the hospital and the Education
    Center, which is in between the hospital and the School of Nursing. Enter through the Ed. Center

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