Reminder: Requirement For Credentialed Technical Director
Becomes Effective January 1, 2007
from
the December 2006 issue
The
Technical Director must have an appropriate credential in echocardiography
from the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonography
(ARDMS) or Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI)
by January 1, 2007.
To
ease facilitation of the implementation of this new requirement,
the ICAEL Board of Directors recently instituted the following
related policy:
If
upon applying for ICAEL accreditation, the Technical Director
of the applicant laboratory does not possess an appropriate
credential in echocardiography, the laboratory will be granted
Provisional one-year accreditation (see Provisional
Grant, A Newly Adopted Decision Pathway), rather than
receiving a full three-year accreditation. Within 30 days
of receiving notification of the one-year accreditation, the
laboratory must submit a plan of action to the ICAEL, detailing
how the Technical Director credentialing issue will be resolved
over the coming year. Prior to the end of the one-year accreditation
period, the laboratory must submit documentation to the ICAEL,
verifying that a Technical Director possessing one of the
acceptable credentials is employed by the laboratory. If verification
is not submitted to the ICAEL prior to the end of the one-year
period, the laboratory's accreditation will expire. Laboratories
with expired accreditation due to a Technical Director credentialing
deficiency may submit documentation meeting this requirement
during the next two years and, if acceptable, accreditation
will be reinstated for the remainder of the original three-year
accreditation period.
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