Coastal Fertility Specialists Receives The Nation’s Highest Level Lab Accreditation

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Nov. 1, 2013 - PRLog -- This esteemed honor is only bestowed upon 7,000 labs. Designed to go well beyond regulatory compliance, the program helps laboratories achieve the highest standards of excellence to positively impact patient care.

“We are thrilled to have received this accreditation and our laboratory team has worked extremely hard on it,” says Dr. John Schnorr, co-founder of Coastal Fertility. “Our practice strives for excellence and creating one of the most exceptional embryological labs in the country is one way we are accomplishing that goal.”

The prestigious CAP accreditation was achieved because of the hard work of the Coastal Fertility lab team including embryologists, Dr. Tom O'Leary and Jennifer Martin as well as Lab Supervisor Delphine Dor. Considered one of the newest labs with the most advanced technologies in the nation, Coastal Fertility also boasts some of the highest pregnancy rates in the Southeast.

Coastal’s lab services all of its offices including ones in Columbia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach. In addition to the CAP accreditation, Coastal Fertility is also fully accredited as a high complexity laboratory from the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA), the College of American Pathologists (CAP), The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and are compliant with all local, state and federal guidelines.

For more information on CAP accreditation, please visit their website at www.cap.org. For information on Coastal Fertility, please call 843-883-5800 or visit www.coastalfertilityspecialists.com.