Objectives

1. Describe how the lab will prioritize and provide essential lab services during periods of operational compromise to maintain quality of patient care and throughput.
2. Discuss the strategies for cost avoidance within the laboratory while maintaining the quality, safety and value of patient care.

Faculty

Vandita Johari, MD

Associate Professor: University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate
Chief, Clinical Pathology
Baystate Medical Center 

 Darlene Cloutier 

Director, Laboratory Operations  
Baystate Medical Center 

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.