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 Kim
Skala Named 2011 POCC of the Year!
The CPOCT Awards Committee has
announced that Kim Skala, MT(ASCP) Point of Care
Coordinator ACL Laboratories, Advocate Christ
Medical Center & Hope Children’s Hospital, Oak Lawn,
Ill., has been named the 2011 POCC of the Year. Kim,
will receive the award during the CPOCT Division
Mixer on Tuesday, July 26, during the AACC Annual
Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo.
Kim began her career at Advocate
Christ Medical Center in 1981. Advocate Healthcare
includes 10 acute care hospitals and 2 children’s
hospitals and is recognized as one of the nation’s
top 10health systems. Kim has been involved with
POCT since 1998. The program at her site has grown
to 20 POC tests and approximately 2700 operators.
Kim is involved with numerous multidisciplinary
teams including the Culture of Safety Program,
Diabetes Management Task Force, Performance
Improvement and the Advocate System-wide Patient
Identificatio Team.
 As
part of ACL Laboratories ( a joint venture between
Advocate (IL) Healthcare and Aurora (WI) Healthcare,
she co-chairs the ACL POCT Technical Advisory Team
and is involved in system standardization across
multiple test platforms and information systems
working to meet the diverse needs of caregivers and
patients across two states and 22 hospitals.
Kim has been an active member of the
Tri-State POC
Network since its inception in 2001. She
is a speaker on POCT for CLS students and current
laboratory professionals. As a member of the CPOCT
Division, Kim enjoys the AACC Mentoring program. Kim
was a presenter at the AACC Annual Meeting in
Chicago (2009) for the POCC Forum and has
contributed articles to several professional
publications. At the 2010 AACC International Point
of Care Symposium in Boston she presented an
abstract on reduction of patient identification
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