After some follow-up, we need to note that DNV Healthcare has only been deemed by CMS for accrediting hospitals. They did not get deemed status for laboratory accreditation.
In other words, they cannot inspect or accredit laboratories. Any hospital that switches to DNV Healthcare will need still need to to accredit their lab by some other agency. [In an earlier version of this post, I inadvertently implied that only CAP or COLA accreditation would be accepted by DNV. 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. ]
Whether deemed status for laboratory accreditation is in the future for DNV Healthcare is anyone's guess. It took years of battling for DNV to achieve the hospital deeming authority. Getting to laboratory deeming authority may require years more.
Still, this reality may make it less attractive for JC accredited hospitals to switch. If you currently use JC for both your laboratory and hospital accreditation, switching to DNV will require you to switch to COLA or CAP as well. Two switches for the price of one?
CAP may be a better fit with DNV's hospital accreditation, since CAP offers an ISO 15189 approach and DNV is going to stress ISO 9001 as part of the accreditation. But COLA has also been using a lot of ISO terminology and quality systems approach in their accreditation.
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