With the current blood tube shortage, Choosing Wisely Canada has developed two documents to raise awareness and provide guidance for hospitals and primary care. Review their recommendations for conserving lab resources in Hospitals and Primary Care facilities: mlpao.org/post/mlpao-upd…

MLPAO, OPSEU/SEFPO, and Unifor united this week to demand a retention strategy for medical laboratory professionals equivalent to that promised to the ONA. Read our letter: - mailchi.mp/mlpao/mlpao-op… #MedLabThx Smokey Thomas

The foundation of a strong and sustainable health care system includes properly staffed labs, that enable the doctors and nurses to do their jobs. #staffourlabs Ontario Hospital Association MLPAO OPSEU/SEFPO Unifor SEIU

OPSEU/SEFPO @2022SaraLabelle Smokey Thomas Ontario Hospital Association Ontario Nurses' Association MLPAO

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Retweet if you support Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board's decision to continue masking and if you'd like to see other school boards show this type of leadership.

"There will be no end to the pandemic, no end to the procedures backlog, no end to hallway medicine without Medical Laboratory Health Human Resources." - Michelle Hoad, CAE responds to Ontario's #PlanToStayOpen: ow.ly/UMIw50IyqJy #MedLabON #ONPoli #ONHealth #ONLab #Budget2022

April 10-17th we will celebrate Medical Laboratory Week in Ontario. Please follow me to participate in appreciating a group that has been hidden, under appreciated and forgotten through this pandemic. Every follow and retweet helps. #labweekON #labisessential MLPAO

To every person that has EVER had a lab test. This is your chance to celebrate the amazing people behind the scene. Happy Medical Laboratory Week! Please share and retweet! #labISessential MLPAO

Join me at 3:15pm as I chat with Angie Seth CTV News about the dire situation in our labs across the province. Exhausted lab professionals can’t sustain this pace. 73% wish to leave the profession. Christine Elliott Ontario Hospital Association Ontario Medical Association Dr. Michael Tibollo Doug Ford

"D" Solution: When Serology Meets Genotyping – Join our live webinar on June 23! Sofia Lejon Crottet will explain how a national reference laboratory determines serologically weak or discrepant D (RH1) results by phenotyping and genotyping. Register: bit.ly/DsoluTSW

A group of concerned individuals, composed primarily of physicians, have come together to request the Ontario Government reinstate masking mandates for all healthcare settings at a provincial level. If you support this idea, please retweet. docs.google.com/document/d/16G…

Did you know that the RHD gene has over 275 different variants? Tune in to Ortho’s Science Bytes as Sue Johnson talks variability in weak and partial D testing and ways to manage it. Listen here: go.orthoclinicaldiagnostics.com/global/en/reso… #OrthoClinicalDiagnostics #Genetics #TransfusionMedicine

Mark your calendars! #GHEST2022 will be back in person on September 17th at Courtyard by Marriot Hamilton, ON. #transfusion #Physicians #Nurses #MLT's

Breaking News: #Bill124 impacts HC workers OTHER than nurses. Lab professionals did not get temp pandemic pay or a $5,000 retention bonus. They are leaving the profession in masses. Lab turnaround times are affected. It's a much bigger problem. #beinformed MLPAO Doug Ford

Preanalytical error accounts for as much as 70 percent of all errors in #DiagnosticTesting. bit.ly/3Ps4rR4

Lab leaders can not talk to the media about the lab crisis without approval from communications, communications works for the institution that demands lab leaders to cut their budgets every year/ produce more with less. The lab delivers at the suffering of their workers. Repeat.

Behind every lab test is a #MedLab professional. From viruses to fungi, they identify millions of microbes to see what ails you at the cellular level. They see you, do you see them? Visit buff.ly/2WjERlP to #SeeTheLab #MedEduca #MedEd #CanadianHealthcare #ONHealth CSMLS / SCSLM

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