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  • 1.  The Results are In: 2025 Hot Topics are Here!

    ASCP Ambassador
    Posted 10-14-2025 10:41
    Edited by Sophia Lewin Adams 10-14-2025 10:43
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    We asked you about your most pressing concerns and the results from the ASCP Hot Topics are in!

    1. Showing other healthcare professionals how laboratory professionals add value to healthcare
    2. Showing patients how laboratory professionals add value to healthcare
    3. Improving workplace culture
    4. Advocating for working conditions in the laboratory
    5. Addressing workforce shortages
    6. Advocating for commensurate compensation
    7. How to identify opportunities for career growth and development
    8. Retaining laboratory staff/personnel
    9. Finding creative staffing solutions to balance increasing demand with resource limitations
    10. Advocating to local students for professions in the laboratory workforce

    Learn more about our plans to address those hot topics here: Your Voice Counts! How ASCP Will Address Laboratory Professional Members' Top Concerns

    Some follow up questions to discuss:

    • Which of these hot topics are surprising to you?
    • How are you addressing these concerns in your work and at your institution? 
    • What resources and trainings would prepare you to tackle these concerns? 



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    Sophia Lewin Adams
    Program Manager, Member Engagement & Chapter Relations
    ASCP Headquarters
    Chicago, IL

    Sophia.Lewinadams@ascp.org
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  • 2.  RE: The Results are In: 2025 Hot Topics are Here!

    Posted 10-15-2025 09:21
    How about adequate reimbursement for laboratory testing?  without this, many of the other items are not possible.
     
    Rick Panning





  • 3.  RE: The Results are In: 2025 Hot Topics are Here!

    Posted 10-16-2025 12:20

    Maintaining lab services in our local rural communities.  Advocacy for keeping lab services local and reducing the impact of large labs coming in and influencing the healthcare narrative through cost cutting.  Oftentimes the healthcare facility is the major employer in these communities.  Outsourcing services impacts the community as a whole, not just the bottom line.  There are providers that have reduced efficiencies due to the loss of local lab services.  Recruitment of new practitioners> young talent will be more difficult. 



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    Julie Boehme Administrative Laboratory Director
    Centracare
    Willmar MN
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  • 4.  RE: The Results are In: 2025 Hot Topics are Here!

    ASCP Ambassador
    Posted 10-18-2025 10:47
    Greetings, 

    These are excellent topics of discussion. I think a solution to help with the workforce shortage could be and something I've been working to develop here in NYC is having recruitment agencies partner with our college to connect them with our graduates for gainful employment in the clinical labs. 

    Sincerely, 


    Diane P. Banks, Ph.D., MPH, MLS (ASCP)cm
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