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The 2024 Laboratory Enrichment Forum

The 2024 Laboratory Enrichment Forum is being held in Fort Walton Beach on Florida’s Emerald Coast on May 7-9, 2024. The Forum offers interactive sessions covering topics of Pathology, Laboratory Leadership, Quality and Emerging Trends. The sessions will provide practical tools to use in your laboratory, and continuing education credits are available for physicians and laboratorians. Don’t delay, register today.

Popular Courses

Laboratory Director Course

All Access – Waived Testing Toolkit

Administrative Access – Waived Testing Toolkit

Waived Testing – Best Practices for Quality Results

Implementing a Meaningful IQCP

Virtual Lecture Series

Overview of Moderate Complexity Regulatory Requirements

One of America’s Leading Laboratory Accreditors

As a leading physician-directed accrediting organization and the first to obtain federal approval under CLIA, we accredit laboratories of all types, sizes and complexities. For over thirty years, we have refined our unique educationally-focused accreditation experience. Year over year customers report 98% satisfaction.  Accreditation is our core business.  Promoting health and safety is our mission. Guiding professionals to achieve their vision for laboratory excellence is our passion. 

COLA Accreditation

COLA continues to be a CMS-approved laboratory accreditation organization (AO).  COLA’s latest reapproval from CMS, for the maximum six-year period, was announced in the Federal Register on March 6, 2024.  

The Joint Commission (TJC) has discontinued the cooperative agreement with COLA for laboratory accreditation. TJC is the only hospital accreditor that restricts options for laboratory accreditation.  TJC-accredited hospitals who use COLA for their laboratory accreditation do have other choices, however, for hospital accreditation.   

There are many synergies between COLA and both DNV and CIHQ (Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality).  These two CMS approved hospital accreditation organizations share many of the COLA values, including a standardized and educational approach to assisting you with compliance challenges.  And both welcome COLA laboratory accreditation in their accredited hospitals.   

A list of l all CMS-approved hospital accreditors can be found at Web List AO Contact List (cms.gov).  

Stay Informed!

Stay informed about the latest regulatory announcements, upcoming events, trending accreditation news and other laboratory topics.

One of America’s Leading Laboratory Accreditors

As a leading physician-directed accrediting organization and the first to obtain federal approval under CLIA, we accredit laboratories of all types, sizes and complexities. For over thirty years, we have refined our unique educationally-focused accreditation experience. Year over year customers report 98% satisfaction.  Accreditation is our core business.  Promoting health and safety is our mission. Guiding professionals to achieve their vision for laboratory excellence is our passion. 

Stay Informed!

Stay informed about the latest regulatory announcements, upcoming events, trending accreditation news and other laboratory topics.

 

 

Future Events

The 2025 Laboratory Enrichment Forum
May 6-8, 2025

 

 

 

The 2024 Laboratory Enrichment Forum

The 2024 Laboratory Enrichment Forum is being held in Fort Walton Beach on Florida’s Emerald Coast on May 7-9, 2024. The Forum offers interactive sessions covering topics of Pathology, Laboratory Leadership, Quality and Emerging Trends. The sessions will provide practical tools to use in your laboratory, and continuing education credits are available for physicians and laboratorians. Don’t delay, register today.

Popular Courses

Laboratory Director Course

All Access – Waived Testing Toolkit

Administrative Access – Waived Testing Toolkit

Waived Testing – Best Practices for Quality Results

Implementing a Meaningful IQCP

Virtual Lecture Series

Featured News & Events

Share Your Gem Story

We’d like to hear your hidden gem stories so that we can share them and reflect the laboratory’s light out into the world for all to appreciate. We will post and promote these stories on social media to spread the word about the critical importance of medical laboratory science.

Laboratory and Patient Safety

Laboratory and Patient Safety

Patient Safety Awareness Week, celebrated every March, casts a spotlight on a critical aspect of healthcare: patient safety. It is a time when the healthcare community, including pathologists and laboratory professionals, renews its commitment to fostering an...

read more

Featured News & Events

Share Your Gem Story

We’d like to hear your hidden gem stories so that we can share them and reflect the laboratory’s light out into the world for all to appreciate. We will post and promote these stories on social media to spread the word about the critical importance of medical laboratory science. 

COLA-employed surveyors have an average of 10 years of laboratory management experience.

Over 97% of COLA customers polled feel that COLA is the best fit for their laboratory accreditation needs.

All COLA surveyors receive over 40 hours of technical training a year.

Laboratory and Patient Safety

Laboratory and Patient Safety

Patient Safety Awareness Week, celebrated every March, casts a spotlight on a critical aspect of healthcare: patient safety. It is a time when the healthcare community, including pathologists and laboratory professionals, renews its commitment to fostering an...

read more
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