Florida Orthopaedic Institute
What prompted you to accredit your lab initially?
Florida Orthopaedic Institute’s mission is to provide excellence in clinical outcomes and an exceptional patient experience, while in an environment that fosters growth through teaching, education, and research in all aspects of musculoskeletal medicine. Our EMG laboratory decided to get accredited to further our mission of being a center of excellence. We wanted our patients to have peace of mind of being provided the highest standard of care that every patient deserves.
What value or benefits have you seen from accreditation?
Accreditation has built confidence in our referral sources of having their patients evaluated at a nationally accredited EMG laboratory. It has motivated our staff to strive to provide the best care possible by periodically reviewing our procedures, protocols, and patient satisfaction.
How did going through the accreditation process help you shore up or improve processes and procedures? Did you make any patient report improvements? If so, which ones?
Accreditation has helped us improve our processes and procedures. We review a sample of our patient reports every quarter to make sure we follow AANEM’s best practices in report writing.
What did you learn by going through the accreditation process?
The accreditation process encouraged us to be methodical in creating and maintaining our laboratory’s manual and to focus on best practices.
What was the most challenging portion of the application?
As I recall, we did not find any aspect of the application to be significantly challenging.
Did anything about the accreditation process surprise you? If so, what?
There were absolutely no surprises during our accreditation process.
Why should others accredit their laboratory?
Accreditation of a laboratory provides a “seal” of credibility and competency for an EMG practice. Accreditation makes a practice more marketable. More importantly, it provides our patients with the satisfaction of receiving the highest standard of care.
