Strengths of the Northwell Health Laboratory Service Line
| Autor: | Dwayne Breining, Henry Simpkins, James Martone, Tom Neglia, Joseph Castagnaro, Hannah Poczter, Erika Balfour, Robert Stallone, Deborah Schron, Paul Kalish, James M. Crawford |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
Engineering Quality management Standardization 030106 microbiology integration Pathology and Forensic Medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine lcsh:Pathology Operations management laboratory service line Closure (psychology) Service (business) business.industry Corporate governance pandemic flood Unexpected events 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis disaster Threatened species Line (text file) business fire Regular Articles lcsh:RB1-214 |
| Zdroj: | Academic Pathology, Vol 3 (2016) Academic Pathology |
| ISSN: | 2374-2895 |
| Popis: | From 2009 to 2015, the laboratories of the 19-hospital North Shore-LIJ Health System experienced 5 threatened interruptions in service and supported 2 regional health-care providers with threatened interruptions in their laboratory service. We report our strategies to maintain laboratory performance during these events, drawing upon the strengths of our integrated laboratory service line. Established in 2009, the laboratory service line has unified medical and administrative leadership and system-wide divisional structure, quality management, and standardization of operations and procedures. Among many benefits, this governance structure enabled the laboratories to respond to a series of unexpected events. Specifically, at our various service sites, the laboratories dealt with pandemic (2009), 2 floods (2010, 2012), 2 fires (2010, 2015), and laboratory floor subsidence (2013). We were also asked to provide support for a regional physician network facing abrupt loss of testing services from closure of another regional clinical laboratory (2010) and to intervene for a non-health system hospital threatened with closure owing to noncompliance of laboratory operations (2012). In all but a single instance, patient care was served without interruption in service. In the last instance, fire interrupted laboratory services for 30 minutes. We conclude that in a large integrated health system, threats to continuous laboratory operations are not infrequent when measured on an annual basis. While most threats are from external physical circumstances, some emanate from unexpected administrative events. A strong laboratory governance mechanism that includes unified medical and administrative leadership across the entirety of the laboratory service line enables successful responses to these threats. |
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