State of New Jersey
Department of Health
Governor Phil Murphy · Lt. Governor Sheila Oliver
Improving Health Through Leadership and Innovation
Programs include:
The Blood Bank Licensing and Regulatory Compliance Program under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Services is responsible for protecting the health and safety of blood donors and transfusion recipients ensuring the safe and effective collection and transfusion of blood and blood products, as well as an adequate and safe blood supply in New Jersey. The program ensures the collection, testing, preparation, storage, transport, and administration of blood and blood components comply with State and Federal regulations as well as guidance documents.
Clinical Laboratory Licensing Program
The Clinical Laboratory Licensing Program provides New Jersey State licensure to collection stations and clinical laboratories performing patient specimen collection and testing.
The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH), under contract with the Federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), administers the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 in New Jersey to ensure quality laboratory testing.
The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Services (CLIS) under the Public Health and Environmental Laboratories Division is charged, by statute, with protecting the health and safety of New Jersey residents through licensing, inspecting, investigating, and enforcing clinical laboratories and blood banks’ continued compliance. CLIS also investigates complaints received from the public.
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All New Jersey Clinical Laboratory Owners and Directors:
Under the New Jersey Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (the Act), N.J.S.A. 45:9-42.45 to -42.49, P.L. 2021, c. 454 as amended by P.L. 2022, c.44, clinical laboratories licensed to operate in New Jersey must meet the recently enacted requirements. The new enactments require: 1) clinical laboratories to record and report certain patient demographic information, namely race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity; 2) clinical laboratory electronic medical records systems and manual requisition forms to include demographic data entry features; and 3) clinical laboratories to implement cultural competency training programs. The new statutory requirements take effect on January 18, 2023, with the exception of the recording and reporting requirements for sexual orientation and gender identity, which take effect on June 18, 2023.
For more information about the requirements, please read the following memorandum:
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) for Clinical Laboratories Guidance Memo
N.J.S.A. 45:9-42.45 to -42.49 et seq.
If you have any questions or comments, please email CLIS@doh.nj.gov and include your full name, facility’s name and CLIS ID number.
