St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center Achieves Leading Laboratory Designation

St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center’s laboratory in Round Rock, Texas has been designated a Leading Laboratory by ASCP. 

Leading Laboratory status is the gold standard for laboratory excellence and signifies the laboratory has made meaningful achievements in improving patient outcomes. The designation also reinforces the critical role laboratories play in supporting accurate diagnoses and timely clinical decision-making by an integrated health care team.

In its application, St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center’s laboratory demonstrated a strong culture of quality and safety, engaged and empowered staff, and close collaboration within its clinical teams. St. David’s Round Rock laboratory consistently focuses on operational excellence, regulatory readiness, and continuous improvement; ensuring reliable and high-quality laboratory services that directly support patient care throughout the medical center. 

“This achievement represents an enormous, year long effort on the part of the entire laboratory team. Their exceptional professionalism and expertise, along with their devotion to being the best, made this possible. They are the best group of laboratory professionals I have ever had the privilege to work with and are well deserving of this honor,” shares Craig Peterson, MD, Laboratory Medical Director at St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center.

The Leading Laboratories program launched in 2021, serving as a model and roadmap to help laboratories on their journey to achieve this designation. The program, created and refined with laboratory leaders, outlines the criteria each laboratory must quantify and demonstrate in their application. The program is coordinated by ASCP to support their mission of patient safety and quality, while providing another opportunity to build awareness of laboratories’ essential role in the continuum of care across all health care settings.

To learn more about the program, visit leadinglaboratories.org.