Event Description
The purpose of the CLIA Compliance Program (CCP) Power Hour is to connect laboratory testing personnel, general supervisors, technical supervisors, clinical consultants, and quality professionals to discuss resources, processes, and practices that support quality and compliance efforts across Infectious Disease (ID) laboratories.
The CLIA Compliance Program (CCP) within the Office of Laboratory Quality provides guidance on regulatory requirements through refresher trainings, theoretical presentations, practical demonstrations, and interactive discussions on method validation and verification, quality indicators, internal and competency assessments, proficiency testing, and CLIA personnel.
The overall goal of this session is to discuss the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recertification survey, the findings received from the CMS recertification survey, CCP efforts to clear deficiencies, as well as share the process improvements made.
Event Objectives
After competing this training participants will be able to:
- Summarize the CDC's 2024 CMS Recertification Survey Report
- Identify the Condition and Standard-level deficiencies cited by CMS
- Discuss the steps that CCP and CDC laboratories took to clear deficiencies
- Review improvements made based on the 2025 Internal Assessment findings
Continuing Education
- Professional Acknowledgment for Continuing Education (P.A.C.E.®) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Laboratory Systems is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program.
- This course is approved for 1.0 contact hour. P.A.C.E.® Course #: 288-405-25
- Instructions for obtaining P.A.C.E.® credit through OneLab REACH™ will be provided during the webinar.
Event Speakers
Marranda Scott, MLS
Senior Clinical Laboratory Scientist,
CLIA Compliance Program (CCP)
Former CMS CLIA Surveyor