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Please include the following information when reporting a concern about regulated medical waste:Description of the concernName/address of the facilityDate incident occurredName of individuals involved/affectedOther agencies to whom the incident was…

A laboratory must meet the CLIA regulatory requirements for enrollment, participation, and testing specified in Subpart H - Proficiency Testing by Specialty and Subspecialty for Laboratories Performing Tests of Moderate Complexity (Including the…

CMS and accreditation organizations routinely monitor their laboratories' performances every 30-45 days. The laboratory director is required to review, evaluate, and document (sign the PT Performance Summary report) for each PT event. Always…

[collapse collapsed] Unsatisfactory PT Performance Definition Failure to attain the minimum satisfactory score for an analyte, test, subspecialty or specialty for a test event Example The laboratory scores 60%…

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designated Albany's Wadsworth Laboratory as one of seven regional labs to tackle the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.  Read More at The Times…

Clarification is provided for the allowable testing in the physician office laboratory, where the technical component/professional component (TC/PC) split affects pathology specimens. 

On August 3, 2016 New York State Commissioner of Health Dr. Howard A. Zucker announced the Wadsworth Center has been awarded $1.8 million to serve as one of seven labs in the nation designated as an Antimicrobial Resistance (AR) Regional Laboratory…

 Thomas M. Bartlett, PhDBartlett Laboratory Keith M. Derbyshire, PhD Derbyshire - Gray Laboratory Todd Gray, PhDDerbyshire - Gray LaboratoryPallavi Ghosh, PhDGhosh LaboratoryKurunthachalam Kannan, PhDKannan LaboratoryNicholas J.…

In Albany, as in many places, August is the time when college students start back to school. But this August 17th at the Wadsworth Center, the Master of Science in Laboratory Sciences students are just finishing.As the only master’s degree…

Considering that the number of mumps cases per year has decreased by more than 99% since the introduction of vaccines against the disease, it is relatively rare these days to hear about a mumps outbreak. But that is just what has happened this…

White-nose syndrome, first identified in the US in New York during the winter of 2006-2007 has killed millions of North American bats, and as of May 2016, has been confirmed in 29 states and 5 Canadian territories.Threatened and endangered bat…

In 2014 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) made the first changes to the recommended HIV testing algorithm in a quarter of a century. According to the new scheme, a small…

NYSDOH Lab Part of a Consortium to Investigate Effects of Environmental Factors During Early Development on the Health of Children and Adolescents ALBANY, N.Y. (September 23, 2016) - New York State Department of Health today announced that its…

New York’s Wadsworth Center Laboratory was one of five state public health laboratories selected by the Association of Public Health Laboratories as a pilot site for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS).…

A videoconferencing site will be available at: NYS DOH Wadsworth Center, Biggs Laboratory, Sturman Conference Room, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY. The Board solicits, receives and reviews applications for awards from the Breast Cancer…

Based on continuous quality improvement by retrospectively looking at levels of analytes detected in infants referred for screened conditions who had the disease and those who did not, the Newborn Screening Program is making the following…

Norovirus is a primary cause of acute gastroenteritis and foodborne disease in the United States where, according to the CDC, it is responsible for "19 - 21 million cases of acute gastroenteritis, 1.7 - 1.9 million outpatient visits and 400,000…

Failing to work with a microorganism at the correct Biosafety Level (BSL) in the laboratory has the potential to place people at risk of accidental exposure to infectious agents, so it is not a surprise that the June 5, 2014 incident at the Centers…

Recently, the 10th annual Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology (LCM) Poster Day was held at the David Axelrod Institute. LCM Research Seminars take place monthly, September through June. This annual poster session kicks off the 31st year of…