The Joint Commission , accredits and certifies thousands of healthcare organizations; focuses on continual improvement of patient safety; updates the standards regularly to reflect the rapid advances in health care and medicine; inspects facilities seeking accredication , Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) , develops standards and guidelines to help laboratories achieve accreditation; provides guidelines to help phlebotomists provide better patient care and achieve greater accuracy in blood testing; details standards for venipuncture, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), helps identify and educate about infections, illnesses, and disease, Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988 (CLIA'88), mandates the regulation of all facilities that perform patient testing, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, federal government agency that regulates clinical laboratories in the US.

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