(e) "Board" or "State Board of Health" means the Alabama State Board of
Health.
(f) "Collection Station" means a facility where materials or specimens are
withdrawn or collected from patients for subsequent delivery to a clinical
laboratory for examination. Physicians' offices are exempted from this
definition.
(g) "Director" means any qualified person responsible for administration of
technical and scientific operations of a laboratory, including supervision of
testing procedures and result reporting.
(h) "Independent Clinical Laboratory" means any laboratory which operates
primarily independent of other health care facilities that are licensed by
the Alabama State Board of Health, or hospital laboratories that receive
and perform reference work from sources outside of the hospital, and
Independent Clinical Laboratories Chapter 420-5-8
and Independent Physiological Laboratories
performs diagnostic and medical laboratory procedures upon referral.
Independent clinical laboratory shall include laboratories operated by
blood banks, plasmapheresis banks, radioisotope facilities, specimen
collection stations, and laboratories engaged in manufacturing diagnostic
test reagents from human whole blood or whole blood derivatives.
Federal and State laboratories shall be excluded from these Rules.