California Association for Medical Laboratory Technology (CAMLT)

07/07/2025

🔥 Sizzling Summer Symposium – Register Now for 4 CEUs!

Join us in-person or virtual!

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06/06/2025

📢 ‼️ Call to Action: AB 481 https://wix.to/RiphRQ9

AB 481 (Rubio) has passed the Assembly and is now in the Senate Business & Professions Committee. The bill would allow unlicensed individuals to perform moderate or high complexity testing under CLIA (federal standards) instead of California standards if they are supervised by a licensed person. This expansion of activities for unlicensed personnel would directly compromise the accuracy of test results and potentially jeopardize the health and safety of patients in California.
Assisting a CLS or MLT with the analytical phase of testing is equivalent to performing tests without a license or supervision. It is impossible for licensed personnel to provide direct and constant supervision (line of sight supervision) to unlicensed personnel while simultaneously performing tests themselves.

How You Can Help:
1. Submit an Opposition Letter
Use the Senate portal here: [https://sbp.senate.ca.gov/committeehome]
- Click “Submit Position Letter” and follow the prompts.
2. Key Talking Points:
Undermines California’s rigorous lab personnel standards.
Risks patient safety by diluting supervision requirements.
Conflicts with CLIA’s intent to ensure qualified testing.
3. Deadline: ASAP– The committee could hear the bill any day.

CAMLT is leading the fight, but we need your voice! Every letter counts.

Stand strong for lab professionals and patients!

For more information on legislative bills, including the state of AB 304 - clinical training funding, please visit https://www.camlt.org/legislativeupdate.

‼️ URGENT CALL TO ACTION Oppose AB 481 – Contact the Senate Business & Professions Committee NOW! Dear CAMLT Members, AB 481 (Rubio) has passed the Assembly and is now in the Senate Business & Professions Committee. The bill would allow unlicensed individuals to perform moderate or high comple...

05/15/2025

I saw this at Honeymoon Diner in Pismo Beach - such a great message. That’s how hospitals work too. Care given to everyone - no matter who they are! Happy Hospital Week 2025!!

05/14/2025

Happy National Hospital Week 2025 May 11-17 - Thank you to all health care workers during this special week! Also - last week was Nurses Week - so much to celebrate! Keeping us healthy so we can enjoy our good health.

05/11/2025

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms, grandmothers and others who take care of loved ones. This is a photo from our Lab Week Photo Booth - but I think it is a great one to use to wish everyone a Happy Mother's Day! Thank you for your service in the labs across California - I am sure there are many moms working today.

05/11/2025

Happy Mother's Day! We honor all the Mothers and Mother-figures today!

04/29/2025

🚨 **Call to Action!** 🚨 California’s Clinical Lab Scientists (CLSs) and Medical Lab Techs (MLTs) need YOUR voice NOW!

✅ For AB 304: *“California faces a critical shortage of CLSs/MLTs. Please SUPPORT AB 304 to fund training programs and protect patient care!”*

🚫 For AB 481: *“Unlicensed staff cannot safely perform complex lab tests. Please OPPOSE AB 481 to safeguard testing quality!”*

✨ **Together, we can protect lab standards and expand training opportunities!** ✨
Tag fellow lab professionals, share this post, and let’s flood the inboxes of our lawmakers!

Send a letter to Assemblymember Wicks to rally up your voice for our profession:

https://apro.assembly.ca.gov/

For more information on these bills, please visit www.camlt.org.

04/20/2025

Happy National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week 2025
This year's theme: Magical Machine of Diagnostics! 70% of medical decisions are based upon laboratory test results. Truly this is important work! We honor our Pathologists, Clinical Laboratory Scientists, Medical Technicians, Laboratory Assistants and our Phlebotomists this week, April 20th-26th.

Elves came in the night and decorated the door to our lab!

04/20/2025

Happy Easter and the beginning of National Laboratory Professionals Week!

03/20/2025

Yesterday at work one of our ICU nurses came jn to pick up a unit of blood for one of her patients. As I prepared the unit for dispensing, she said “The lab is so important! No one is seen at this hospital without blood work. I don’t understand why they’re not throwing gobs of money at the lab for the important work done here!” She used to work as a phlebotomist and she said “I remember my roots!” God bless our health care workers!

03/20/2025

Although I attended Cheaper by the Dozen virtually on the Saturday - I can say that it was an outstanding experience to interact with top notch speakers and learn so much! It is so exciting to meet and interact with these leaders in the field. Thank you to the Cheaper by the Dozen crew! Bravo for a job well done!