03 · Laboratory consulting · Massachusetts
Standing up a lab inside a practice, and keeping it running.
Licensure, equipment, the laboratory director, staffing, ordering, inspections. The work between deciding to add a lab and running one that passes.
What this is
Adding a laboratory to a practice is a regulatory project, a capital project and a staffing project at the same time. Brett has run all three, more than once, and then run the lab that came out of them.
For physician-owners and practice administrators adding an in-office laboratory, whoever makes the decision.
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Licensure and certification
State licensing, CLIA certification and local health approvals, in the right order, with the paperwork carried rather than handed to you.
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Capital plan and equipment
What to buy, what to lease, what to negotiate, and the maintenance schedules and service contracts that come with it.
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The laboratory director
Finding the right director: the posting, the interviews, the negotiation, and the onboarding.
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Staffing
Laboratory technicians employed by the practice, managed to a laboratory standard.
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Ordering and supply
Reagents, consumables and controls, kept in stock and in date.
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Inspections
State and health inspections, and the corrective changes that follow them.
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Safety
Safety data sheets compiled, current, and where an inspector expects to find them.
The standard
Brett GallOwner · Veteran owned and operated
More than twenty years in clinical laboratories, and the U.S. Marine Corps before that.
B.S. Biology and B.S. Chemistry. CLIA technical supervisor and general supervisor in toxicology and clinical laboratories; COLA-accredited and Massachusetts DPH-licensed labs. Molecular laboratories brought online. Capital and equipment strategy for growing labs, run in parallel with state, CLIA and health licensing. Laboratory directors found, interviewed and onboarded. Ordering, maintenance contracts, inspections and the corrections after them.
BMG also cleans laboratory and medical space, to a standard Brett sets because he knows what right looks like from the bench and from the binder. That work is here.
Questions a physician-owner asks
Before the walkthrough.
Is this legal or regulatory advice?
No. It's operating experience. Your counsel and your accrediting bodies are the authority; BMG does the work of meeting them.
Where does BMG consult?
Massachusetts.
Can BMG also clean the lab it set up?
Yes. That's the point. Laboratory cleaning is scoped the same way, after a walkthrough.
One conversation, on site
Book a walkthrough.
Brett will see the space, or the plan for it, tell you if it's a fit, and put the scope in writing.
(508) 419-0931 contact@bmglaboratoryservices.com13 Steeple St, 202-12, Mashpee, MA 02649
Consulting statewide in Massachusetts