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Welcome to the American Society For Clinical Laboratory Science - Pennsylvania, an affiliate of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.
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The mission of ASCLS is to make a positive impact in health care through leadership that will assure excellence in the practice of laboratory medicine.ASCLS Believes:
- Quality laboratory service is essential to quality health care.
- Competent, credentialed, laboratory professionals are the foundation to quality laboratory medicine.
- Everyone deserves access to safe, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered healthcare, and
- Advancing the laboratory profession advances health care.
- Ensuring safe, accurate, efficient, appropriate and cost effective laboratory services is a component of quality
- Defining the characteristics of competent personnel within the profession and providing professional development opportunities so that practitioners can maintain competency are essential roles of a professional association
- Enabling laboratory professionals to function at their highest level of competence will contribute to cost effective health care
- Promoting diversity supports the delivery of quality laboratory service
- Taking a leadership role in standard and policy setting is a core professional responsibility
- Advocating for quality within the laboratory is essential to the assurance of quality health care delivery
