What is a Leading Laboratory?
Leading Laboratories demonstrate excellence in four key areas: elevating quality outcomes, supporting professional development, cultivating trusted leadership, and promoting laboratory visibility.
Quality Outcomes
Professional Development
Trusted Leadership
Laboratory Visibility
Elevating Quality Outcomes
A Leading Laboratory is a key contributor to the overall patient experience, and generates quality outcomes which support a positive, patient-centric mission.
A Leading Laboratory:
- Develops and integrates clinical and operational strategies that improve quality and monitor progress for delivering safe, effective patient care
- Applies evidence-based data to apply proven and innovative principles that improve processes and facilitate knowledge sharing
- Participates in finding solutions to gaps and variations in care
- Leads care-improvement initiatives that enhance the patient experience
Supporting Professional Development
The leaders of a Leading Laboratory align with their organization and community to foster collaborative relationships and better embody value-based healthcare.
A Leading Laboratory:
- Builds strong and resilient laboratory teams by highlighting the professional development of team members
- Showcases achievements to help recruit high-quality candidates
- Elevates the laboratory workforce through engagement
- Validates employees’ commitment to excellence in the laboratory
Cultivating Trusted Leadership
A Leading Laboratory advocates a continuum of learning and activities that aid in improving laboratory professionals’ knowledge, competence, skill, and effectiveness.
A Leading Laboratory:
- Articulates a clear mission in support of patient care
- Effectively manages resources
- Engages team members, colleagues, and patients through respectful dialogue
- Demonstrates excellence and transformational leadership to organizational leaders, administrators, and c-suite
Promoting Laboratory Visibility
A Leading Laboratory increases visibility of the laboratory and the broader profession through active promotion and recognition of its vital role in a patient’s healthcare journey.
A Leading Laboratory:
- Demonstrates expertise, insight, and influence within the broader pathology and laboratory medicine community.
- Positions the medical laboratory as critical to the larger clinical care team, c-suite executives, and its overall healthcare system
- Differentiates the laboratory’s commitment to quality outcomes in public-facing communications
- Conveys the importance of the laboratory’s role in patient care