(a) The medical laboratory board shall be responsible for the establishment of the procedures and standards to be used for the proper collection, handling and preanalytic processing of laboratory samples and may promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for such procedures and standards.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-29-122

  • Board: means the medical laboratory board, created by §. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Medical laboratory: means any institution, building, or place in which operations and procedures for the microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, immunohematological, or biophysical examination of specimens taken from the human body are performed to obtain information for diagnosis, prophylaxis, or treatment or where any examination, determination, or test is made on any sample used as a basis for health advice, or where any sample is collected for the purpose of transfusion or processing of blood or blood fractions, or for the training of medical laboratory personnel. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, municipality, political subdivision, or any other entity whether organized for profit or not. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) When blood is withdrawn from a patient in a home for the aged, nursing home residential hospice or recuperation center, or from a patient of a home care organization as these terms are defined in § 68-11-201, the procedure shall be performed by a trained phlebotomist or a person who has been properly trained to draw blood and has been licensed in this state by the appropriate board for the respective health care profession of such person.
(c) Collection stations owned and operated as part of a laboratory licensed in Tennessee do not require an additional license. Collection stations owned and operated by laboratories in other states are required to have a Tennessee license. Collection stations shall comply with rules and regulations prescribed by the board.
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