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Allina Hospitals & Clinics
Higher Ed, Allina Team to Solve Critical Medical Lab Tech Shortage
May 9th, 2008
During National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, April 20-26, we honor the more than nearly 2000 medical laboratory professionals across in Minnesota who perform and interpret lab tests that save lives and keep people healthy. But Clinical Laboratory Technicians (CLT) and Clinical Laboratory Scientists (CLS) are becoming scarce commodities for health care employers. 43 percent of the schools in the U.S. that have trained them have closed due to the high expense of running the programs and lack of sites willing and able to provide the 720 hours of required clinical training. "It is truly a workforce crisis," says Jane Renken, manager of Workforce Planning/Sourcing...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-05-09)
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