September 28, 2026
Transcript
Nancy Johnson
Welcome
to
CAP
News.
I'm
Nancy
Johnson
with
the
College
of
American
Pathologists.
Here's
what's
making
news
in
pathology
and
laboratory
medicine.
When
most
of
us
get
a
blood
test
or
biopsy,
we
don't
think
much
about
what
happens
next.
The
sample
goes
out
the
door.
A
few
hours
or
days
later,
the
results
show
up
in
our
chart.
But
behind
every
test
result
is
an
entire
system
designed
to
answer
one
critical
question.
Can
patients
trust
the
results?
For
CHRISTUS Health
in
Northeast
Texas,
ensuring
consistent,
reliable
lab
results
across
multiple
locations
presented
them
with
a
challenge.
Patusa Mayfield
I
don't
want
to
be
selfish,
but
navigating
three
or
four
accrediting
agencies
is
a
lot
of
work.
And
I
wanted
to
standardize
not
only
the
main
hospital
but
all
the
smaller
hospitals,
the
35
plus
clinics
that
we
have
that
are
Christas
Trini
clinics,
all
under
one
accrediting
agency.
Nancy Johnson
Patusa
Mayfield
is
the
laboratory
director
for
CHRISTUS
Mother
Frances.
The
health
system
performs
roughly
four
and
a
half
million
lab
tests
every
year.
A
key
decision
they
made
for
consistent
quality
is
accreditation
by
the
College
of
American
Pathologists.
Patusa Mayfield
CAP
provides
standardization,
they
provide
standards
that
make
you
be
better.
At
first,
you
know,
when
you
read
all
these
standards,
you
think,
oh,
how
can
we
meet
this?
But
there's
always
such
a
synopsis
or
a
story
behind
the
standard
that
says,
you
know,
different
ways
of
looking
at
the
requirements.
Even
if
you
don't
understand
the
standard,
CAP
provides
a
tremendous
resource.
They
have
education,
they
have
an
accreditation
section
that
devotes
themselves
just
to
explaining
the
standards
and
making
you
understand
it.
Nancy Johnson
For
patients,
those
standards
are
largely
invisible.
Most
never
see
the
safeguards
built
into
every
step
of
testing.
Dr.
Kelli
Chase
is
a
pathologist
and
laboratory
medical
director
for
CHRISTUS
Mother
Frances.
Dr. Kelli Chase
A
lot
of
patients
don't
have
much
knowledge
about
the
hospital
laboratory
or
the
laboratory
where
their
blood
or
their
biopsy
specimens
go,
and
uh
because
uh
we're
not
interacting
directly
with
them.
And
so
it's
it's
interesting,
I
think,
for
maybe
them
to
know
that
the
lab
is
not
just
a
great
big
black
box
that
does
magic.
Nancy Johnson
Behind
the
scenes
are
multiple
quality
checks.
A
key
component
of
the
quality
journey
for
CHRISTUS
Health
involved
choosing
a
proficiency
testing
provider.
Dr. Kelli Chase
Of
course,
College
of
American
Pathologists
has
a
long
history
with
quality
measures,
proficiency
testing,
working
with
pathologists
at
multiple
laboratories
in
different
environments,
as
well,
uh
including
uh
hospital
environments
and
outpatient
laboratories,
large
and
small,
uh,
and
far
and
wide.
Nancy Johnson
And
CHRISTUS
isn't
standing
still.
The
health
system
is
adding
beds,
opening
new
facilities,
and
expanding
services
across
Northeast
Texas.
For
Mayfield,
that's
exactly
why
building
a
unified
quality
framework
matters
now
more
than
ever.
Patusa Mayfield
So
we're
a
large
institution,
and
like
I
said,
654
beds,
but
adding
an
additional
150
is
going
to
bring
our
complexity
even
higher.
So
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
ready
for
that
growth
and
that
strategy
that's
coming
forward.
Nancy Johnson
Starting
next
year,
all
48
sites
in
the
CHRISTUS
Texas
region
will
be
CAP
accredited
and
will
use
CAP
proficiency
testing.
They're
on
a
journey
to
bring
their
entire
health
system
under
the
CAP
for
quality.
That
does
it
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