DNV Healthcare and Labs - a correction

By Sten Westgard, MS

In an earlier post about DNV Healthcare and Laboratory accreditation, I inadvertently implied that only CAP or COLA accreditation would be accepted by DNV. I should have been more precise in my listing of possible accreditation agencies for laboratories; that was a mistake on my part. I didn't intend to imply that only those two accreditations would be accepted by DNV. My apologies for my imprecise statement.

The important point is that DNV currently will not accredit labs. If you move to DNV Healthcare to accredit your hospital, you will need to have another agency accredit your laboratory.

Again, I am sorry to have given the wrong impression. Thanks to Margaret Peck of Joint Commission for alerting me to the problem. The original post has been corrected as well.

Sten

Comments

[Patrick Horine]

To clarify your statement - DNV Healthcare Inc. requires that the
laboratory be certified in accordance with 42 CFR §493. This means that the hospital laboratory must maintain a valid CLIA Certificate appropriate to the level of services performed. This can be a Certificate of Compliance or a Certificate of Accreditation.