Faculty of The Albemarle’s Medical Laboratory Expertise Program receives accreditation

Faculty of The Albemarle (COA) is happy to announce that our Medical Laboratory Expertise (MLT) program was just lately awarded accreditation for ten years by the Nationwide Accrediting Company for Scientific Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS).

NAACLS supplies worldwide accreditation for healthcare-related academic packages akin to MLT.  The NAACLS is acknowledged by the Council for Increased Training as an accrediting company.

COA’s MLT program prepares people for scientific laboratory careers in hospitals, medical places of work, business, and analysis services.  College students learn to carry out laboratory procedures in scientific chemistry, hematology, microbiology, and immunohematology.  This particular program at COA begins every January and takes roughly 18 months to finish.  Graduates are eligible to take the examination given by the Board of Certification of the American Society for Scientific Pathology.  Many MLT graduates are supplied jobs previous to commencement.  

“I promote this unbelievable program each likelihood I get,” stated Jeff Carter, Division Chair, Allied Well being. “In 18 months, a scholar can full this Affiliate in Science and turn into employed in a really well-paying job. Our MLT college students are virtually all the time employed earlier than graduating. Who is aware of — the CSI followers could even determine to get into forensics. Terri Riddick and her college do an unbelievable job educating Medical Laboratory Expertise and making a tradition of camaraderie and success amongst their college students.”

The accreditation course of shouldn’t be required; nevertheless, it is necessary in our efforts to provide extremely certified healthcare staff inside our area and past.  This can be a rigorous course of that ensures our program meets nationwide academic requirements.  It additionally establishes the observe of ongoing self-evaluation which supplies for continuous reflection and enchancment.  

Robin Harris, the Dean of Well being Sciences, shared:

Taking excellent care of our group members takes all kinds of well being care professionals to ensure we’re getting the proper data to get purchasers the assistance they want. The medical laboratory is an especially necessary a part of serving to to get the proper prognosis, in order that therapy might be focused and efficient.  Medical Laboratory Technologists (MLT) are on the very coronary heart of that work and their precision and dedication to make sure correct outcomes are an enormous a part of profitable well being care anyplace.  We’re so lucky to have a top quality MLT program for our space that helps a number of services have the workforce they want to do that necessary work.  This reaffirmation of accreditation is one other great achievement for this system and speaks to the high quality work of Terri Riddick, the Program Coordinator, our scientific facility companions and our college students.