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Accreditation Statistics

As of October 1, 2023

Cellular Therapy Entities

  • Accredited: 258
  • Applicants: 26

Cord Blood Banks

  • Accredited: 53
  • Applicants: 9

Congratulations to the following programs for achieving initial FACT accreditation:

  • Kingston Health Sciences Centre
  • CTCA-COH Arizona Hematologic Malignancy and Cellular Therapy Institute (CAHCTI)
  • The Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati, Ohio

A complete list of accredited organizations can be found at www.factglobal.org.

2020 FACT-ASTCT Quality Manager Engagement and Resiliency Survey

Posted in :: 2020 Volume 2 :: Monday, March 16th, 2020

 

Resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust easily to change.  Highly resilient individuals thrive in an environment of change. The Quality Manager’s capacity to be resilient during change, a constant in their work life, is a critical skillset.

Since 2017, the FACT Quality Management Committee and the ASTCT Administrative Directors SIG Quality Working Group have collaborated to identify opportunities to increase the QM’s resiliency.   During that year, the quality groups developed an anonymous survey to collect data on Quality Manager personal resilience and their perceived benefits of improved resilience. The survey included a validated “Brief Resilience Scale”2 (BRS) which quantitatively measures resilience (1 = low to 5 = high).

To assess possible work stressors, Quality Managers were queried about their responsibilities, program size/complexity, and the nature of interactions with others, e.g. direct supervisors. Respondents were also asked to rank selected resources for increasing resiliency.

Since that initial survey, results have been analyzed and presented as abstracts during TCT | Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of ASTCT and CIBMTR.  Additionally, survey findings have been used to identify resources to help, among others, build resilience through improved workplace communications, workload management.   This resources list was uploaded to the FACT website at:  http://www.factwebsite.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=1898.

It’s come time to reassess…Quality managers, we need you! 

The committees are reaching out more broadly to cellular therapy program and cord blood bank Quality Managers around the world requesting that you complete a follow-up survey.   This year’s anonymous survey takes approximately 20 minutes to complete.  The survey can be accessed at the web address or by scanning the QRS code included below.

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FACT-ASTCT2020QMResiliency

 

 

 

The FACT Quality Management Committee and the ASTCT Administrative Directors SIG Quality Working Group plan to analyze information provided by respondents later this year and publish early in 2021.