Coordinating Council on the Clinical Laboratory Workforce

To: ASCLS House of Delegates

Re: CCCLW Annual MeetingHOD Report

Prepared by:Rick Panning, ASCLS Representative, CCCLW

Date: July 3, 2016

The Coordinating Council on the Clinical Laboratory Workforce continues its mission of being a united voice of clinical laboratory organizations and stakeholders, focusing our collective efforts to:

  • Increase the number of qualified clinical laboratory professionals.
  • Increase healthcare and public awareness of our value in achieving positive patient outcomes.
  • Enhance the image of clinical laboratory professionals.

Opportunities

  • Control our profession’s destiny and get a seat at the healthcare “table”
  • Impact the care process and public health like only our profession can

Creation of two teams to address new focus:

  • Measuring Value Project (Data team): Obtain metrics necessary to provide objective evidence of lab professionals positive impact on patient outcomes
  • Collaboration/Communication team: Deliver the story the evidence tells through collaboration and a unified voice within the laboratory profession

Meetingsfor 2015 - 2016:

  • Meeting in Chicago, September 15, 2015
  • Conference call meeting in December 14, 2015.
  • CCCLW Expert Panelmeeting on March 7-8, 2016 (Elissa Passiment representing ASCLS)
  • Meeting on June 20, 2016 in Chicago (Jim Flanigan, EVP and Rick Panning, ASCLS Representative)
  • Steering committee calls (Rick Panning as communication workgroup chair) in August, October, November, January, February, March, April and May,

Current Activities/Initiatives

  1. Current member organization (CAP, APHL have decided to leave organization).
  • AACC
  • AGT
  • AMT
  • ASC
  • ASCLS
  • ASCP
  • ASHI
  • ASM
  • BOC
  • CLMA
  • NAACLS
  • NSH
  • Ortho
  • VA
  1. Financial report: For June 20, 2016 meeting
  2. Income $12,500 from rants from ASCP and AMT for Expert Panel
  3. Expenses of approximately $16,300
  4. Balance prior to June meeting = $15, 788
  5. Decision had been made not to assess 2016 dues as balance would cover costs for remainder of 2016
  6. ASCLS will continue to maintain the treasury and allow use of credit card for meeting expenses.
  1. Measuring Value Team Project Update – Paul Epner
    Literature Review progress report:
  • Teresa Nadder chairs. Pulled 70 articles for review. Summarized into a grid format. Still problems with definitions of value and various pieces of literature. Most of the articles are review or commentary in nature. May need to expand the literature.
  • Outcomes: Patient, family, clinicians, administration, public health, CMS
  • Completed for expert panel prior to March meeting
  • First draft of survey of current measures in practice has been completed. ASCLS Admin will be used to circulate the survey.
  1. Expert Panel meeting – replaces CCCLW December meeting
  • Expert panel meeting on March 7-8 was a success and provided a good start for the project. 18 invited experts will attend. Adam Birks and Ed Peterson were nominated by ASCLS.
  • Literature review, chaired be Theresa Nader will be published
  • Current measures survey was summarized
  • Paul Epner developing a 2 page executive summary
  1. Communication/Collaboration: Article on workforce projections. Summary of member organization workforce-related activities Executive summary of the change in focus of CCCLW to concentrate on the laboratory profession’s value proposition and associate data team.
  1. Website updates
  • Vendor selection: Orange Wave for updating both CCCLW and LabScienceCareers.com
  • Kathy Cilia (AMT), Michele Smith (ASCT), JR Constance (ASCLS) and Jason Yuhas (APHL) serve on the website committee.
  • A preview of the new website was shared on June 20, 2016.
  • At June 20 meeting, members split into workgroups to review preview version of website and make recommendations for changes and additions. The output from this process will be provided to the vendor and website committee to make changes.
  • Identified need for editorial board to keep information current
  • Workgroups:
  • Main page: About the organization, why this site, member organizations, contact us
  • FAQs for Administrators, FAQs for Education, News, News/Blog spot
  • Resources – Articles and presentations, Recruiting resources, Awareness campaign, Workforce data
  • Materials to add:
  • Consolidated executive summary of CCCLW accomplishments
  • New and on-going workforce-related activities
  • Opportunities for organizations to collaborate
  • Key messages, and Position statements
  1. Labsciencecareers.com website: discussed new structure, content revision, aintenance and on-going support
  1. Steering committee/leadership
  • Hilary Blair (ASCP) and Kathy Cilia have volunteered for the next 2 year term on the steering committee. (in addition to current members Steve Zibrat (AACC) and Rick Panning (ASCLS)
  • We are still following up to identify a CCCLW chair. Susan Morris (BOC) has indicated she would serve another term
  1. Summary
  • September meeting will be a conference call
  • Website: Meeting power point sent out to all. Send list of content changes from each team to Susan by July 1

Labsciencecareers.com: Send Word document of old content to all for review. Send recommendations for minimal changes to old content for loading onto LSC as a starting point. Proposal to ASCLS Leadership Academy to design LSC new content

Requests for Action: Request to the leadership of the Leadership Academy to take on redesign of Labscience careers website and propose new content as their 2016-2017 project.

Concerns: None