LABORATORY ACCREDITATION The Pathology Clinical Services laboratories are licensed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA ’88). The College of American Pathologists (CAP) is the accrediting organization for all specialties and subspecialties with the exceptions of the Blood Bank and Tissue Antigen, which are accredited by the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) and the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) respectively. Note: All of the following links are to Adobe PDF documents. In order to view them you will need Adobe’s Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later (Get Acrobat Reader free).