The Laboratory of En Chu Kong Hospital (ECKH) employs 34 members of staff, including a director, 7 supervisors, 21 medical technicians, 3 nurses and 2 assistants. We process approximately 450,000 samples and deliver over 1,650,000 reports to patients each year. Meanwhile, we also accept test application from other clinics. The laboratory is divided into seven units, chemistry, hematology, microscopic examination, immunology, microbiology, blood bank and quality assurance.
Our mission is to provide accurate and effective services for customers’ request, and continue to improve quality control of the laboratory.
In order to maintain the highest standards, the need to continuously assess the quality of laboratory services, ECKH laboratory designed an intensive internal quality control system. We also participate in an external quality control program organized by CAP (American College of Pathologists), API (US Proficiency Institute) and TSLM (Taiwan Experimental Medicine Society). In addition to the annual audit of the government health authorities, the ECKH laboratory was successfully certified by the US COLA (Office Laboratory Accreditation Board) in 2007 to obtain ISO 15189 guidance.
On the basis of the architecture, we challenged the CAP's stringent quality control standards and applied for the Laboratory Accreditation Program (LAP) and successfully obtained LAP certification on April 22, 2013. In addition, the laboratory checks every two years and updates the CAP certification, April 22, 2019. In the future, all aspects of laboratory operations need to be addressed to ensure quality improvement, and the goal of this activity in the laboratory will continue to improve quality and reduce the time required to deliver health outcomes.