Driving Test Standardization That Meets Provider & Patient Expectations: One System’s Journey - on demand

Mary Hammel is a Laboratory Manager at UCHealth in Colorado. In this role and as the Best Practice Team leader, she sets strategic direction for the POC programs at 12 hospitals, 12 FSEDs, and 145 urgent care and primary care clinics for UCHealth.

Mary has been a laboratory scientist for 18 years with a background in microbiology and molecular diagnostics before moving to POC. She passionately believes that a well-supported POC testing menu is an integral part of a complete hospital laboratory program and can offer critical and lifesaving bedside laboratory testing that is on par with the clinical laboratory. Mary has thorough knowledge of CAP, CLIA, JC regulatory standards and has successfully implemented many large system POC platforms involving over 10 thousand end users. She also enjoys helping labs grow their POC programs. Beyond helping them simply try to keep up with POC testing, Mary focuses on building strong foundations for POC programs to elevate their testing capabilities to the highest level.