[Histonet] 72644.18148.qm@web111105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com

[Joe Nocito]

I've seen lab get accredited one month, only to have CLIA come through the 
next month and rip that lab apart. I have been through CAP inspections that 
consisted of the inspector looking only at slides while he checked off the 
checklist to inspectors carrying their own thermometers and testing the temp 
of the paraffin baths on the tissue processors. This is supposed to be a 
peer review, often it's a witch hunt. I had one CAP team leader tell me that 
my lab was the last lab he was going to inspect because he dropped out of 
CAP and went with JCAHO, which was approved by his hospital administrator.
Does anyone know why CAP split the "processing" and "grossing parts anyway? 
I thought it was a stupid idea in the first place. But then again, I've 
never been known to be politically correct

Joe
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From: "Andrew Burgeson" <napoli <@t> siscom.net>
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Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 12:26 PM
Subject: [Histonet] 72644.18148.qm <@t> web111105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com


> Sheesh is right, J.
>
> CAP is all politics as far as I am concerned. It is all
> about protecting the careers and paychecks of the general
> pathology community.
>
> I am thouroughly unimpressed with JCAHO, CAP et al.
>
> If all you need to legally run a laboratory is to be CLIA
> inspected, then WHY BOTHER with these subjective entities?
>
>
> The BS I have heard over the last few months concerning MOHS
> surgery specimens is one glaring example of the limitations
> CAP has in understanding fully certain nuances of the lab
> trade.
>
> Ridiculous. Unless you want the marketing and potential
> "perception" that you are better covered from a legal
> standpoint, CAP certs are worthless.
>
> The more I hear about CAP certifications, the more I see it
> as a certain community of individuals who are protecting
> their perceived "TURF."
>
> In the end, the pathologists in the group and in the
> facility in which you are working have to take
> responsibility for these matters. If the docs think a CAP
> cert is necessary, then do it and live with it. If not, then
> consider yourself lucky to not have to see these people in
> your lab.
>
> I have been through MANY CAP inspections in and out of the
> military. For the most part, though, I see people paying
> this organization to inspect their lab as the same thing as
> "burning a pinch of incense in honor of great Caesar, ruler
> of Rome." It will get you some kudos, but tangibly not
> change much at all if your pathologists or HR $ hiring hands
> want to pocket more $ as a result of hiring "pregnant out of
> wedlock 16 year olds" to gross tissue and cut slides.
>
> Seen it.
>
> AB
>
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