Licenses & Accreditation

All testing locations within the Department of Laboratory Medicine, UW Medicine are subject to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA-88). Washington State's clinical laboratory licensure program has been judged by the Federal Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as equivalent to CLIA and was granted an exemption from the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). Our CLIA number is maintained by the Washington State Department of Health as part of the Medical Test Site licensure program.

Our laboratories are located in six facilites in the University community, all of those locations have individual licenses and accreditations. Please refer to the list below for each locations' licenses, image of certification and testing services.

Laboratory Medicine has never experienced a limitation, suspension, probation or voluntary relinquishing of a license, certification or accreditation.

CAP Accreditations

Washington State Medical Test Site / CLIA Licenses

Previous Accreditations

Additional Regulatory Information

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Affiliated Laboratory

Performing Lab Codes

In downstream systems and printed reports, the following codes are used to identify the lab performing the test:

Code	Laboratory
UW	University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC)
HH	UW at Hall Health Primary Care Center
HV	Harborview Medical Center (HMC)
CV	UW Virology at Children's Hospital & Regional MC
R2	UWMC at Roosevelt
EV	UW Molecular Virology Laboratory
HP	UW Hematopathology Laboratory
AL	Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Lab
RF	Performed by outside reference laboratory. See result.

Last updated: 12/21/2007

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