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Laboratories seeking Joint Commission accreditation must meet certain eligibility requirements. Your laboratory must:

• Operate in the United States or its territories. If your laboratory is outside the United States, it must be operated by the U.S. government or under a charter of the U.S. Congress.
• Have a facility license (if required by law), a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) license or registration to conduct its scope of services.
• Demonstrate to a clinician reviewer or qualified CLIA designee that it continually assesses and improves the quality of its care and/or services.
• Identify the services it provides, indicating which care, treatment and/or services it provides directly, under contract or through some other arrangement.
• Provide services that can be evaluated by Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s standards.

Â鶹´«Ã½ accredits laboratories that operate in a variety of settings, such as:

• Hospital laboratories.
• Reference and stand-alone laboratories.
• Point-of-care testing sites.
• In vitro fertilization (IVF) laboratories.
• Physician office laboratories.
• Ambulatory care laboratories.
• Anatomic pathology laboratories.
• Toxicology laboratories.