[Histonet] New York Qualifications for Histology Supervisor

[Perl , Alison]

Hi Melissa
This is true, and a source of my neverending frustration with NYS Office of Professions. Stephanie Shulman (stephanie.shulman at health.ny.gov) is a good person at NYS to get clarification, but she will reiterate the same.

NYS has explained to me that "histotechs don't exercise judgment" and thus are not qualified to take on the role of supervisor, even for a histology-only laboratory. The supervisors here in my lab and myself all have Clinical Lab Technologist licenses, from when they were grandfathered back in 2007. I have techs who went to school specifically for Histology, but can never become supervisors. I don't know what anyone will do for the next generation of supervisors - your situation is a real fear.

Anyone in NYS who would like to raise this issue with your representatives, I encourage you to do so!!

Alison Perl, HTL(ASCP)CM
Anatomic Pathology Manager 
CareMount Medical
(914) 302-8424
aperl at cmmedical.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Melissa Owens via Histonet [mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 11:21 AM
To: histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Histonet] New York Qualifications for Histology Supervisor

Hello,

I have a question about the requirements to be a supervisor in New York. New York dept. of Ed states qualifications for a Medical Technologist/Laboratory Supervisor and a Cytotechnologist/Cytology Supervisor but no where does it mention qualifications for a Histototech/Histology Supervisor. So therefore, I have heard that in New York, a Histology Supervisor must qualify under the Medical Technologist/Laboratory Supervisor qualifications statues. This seems impossible to me as this would have to be an individual who becomes a Medical Technologist and by random transfers into a histology role then becomes a supervisor. Does anyone out there in New York legally qualify your histology supervisors who have a bachelors degree but were not former Medical Technologists? Thank you for any help as I have intensely scoped the New York department of Education website in my frustrations.

By the way, I am asking this because I have a Day Shift 7:30am-4pm Monday-Friday Histology Supervisor position in the New York Metropolitan area with these requirements and I don't know if there is a way around them. Thank you!

Melissa Owens, CHP (ASA)
President, Laboratory Staffing
Allied Search Partners



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