What was James Buchanan's major accomplishment? His greatest achievement was to be elected the 15th President of the United States. His greatest achievement as president was to delay the Civil War for four years.
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulates all laboratory testing (except research) performed on humans in the U.S. through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). In total, CLIA covers approximately 254,000 laboratory entities. The Division of Laboratory Services, within the Survey and Certification Group, under the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) has the responsibility for implementing the CLIA Program. The objective of the CLIA program is to ensure quality laboratory testing.
The New CLIA Competency Assessment for Laboratory Personnel - CD. This webcast originally aired as a live webinar co-sponsored by AACC and ASCLS on April 17, 2013. At the end of 2012, CMS published a document to help labs comply with CLIA â88âs competency assessment requirements. This document was the culmination of two years of work the agency put in to clarify and further explain sections of the competency regulations that labs have found confusing.