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The article reports on the members of the Chicago branch of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science - Illinois (ASCLS-IL) purchasing a community tree at the Brookfield zoo and volunteering for pledge drives of the local public broadcasting service (PBS) station, WTTW Channel 11.

The article presents various personal narratives of American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science-Illinois (ASCLS-IL) Student Forum students wherein they reflect on their first year as MLS program students at Rush University.

The article announces that JoAnn Potts, MT (ASCP), from Rush University Medical Center has received the Thonar Award.

The author expresses her happiness for writing the letter to the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science-Illinois (ASCLS-IL) members as President of ASCLS-IL. She mentions that as the number of people in need of healthcare is expected grow, the demand for educated Medical Laboratory Technicians will increase. She states that as healthcare reforms take shape, it is important for the lab techs to realize that they are part of a workforce that is essential for the medical machinery to run.

The article describes the meeting of American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science-Illinois (ASCLS-IL) Northwest branch held at OSF Saint Anthony Hospital in Rockford, Illinois. It mentions that the meeting started with welcoming of all the attendees by the Northwest branch president. Three Northern Illinois University (NIU) students presented their summer internship experiences followed by a Question and Answer session.

The article focuses on what clinical laboratory professionals can do to make themselves visible. It states that most people think the lab machines do all the work and that lab professionals do not do much. It mentions that a graduate from the CLT program has built a Facebook page ``Clinical Laboratory Technology'' as part of her professional development project when she was in the CLT program to increase awareness about who lab professionals are and what they do.

The article describes the experiences of 3 Illinois Central College students who worked as judges in a science fair for students in grades 6 - 12 held at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois.

Information about various points discussed at a legislative symposium held at Washington DC is presented. The important points which were discussed include shortage of labor, cuts to the laboratory due to very high health reform and outdated laboratory fee schedule causing wrong reimbursement. The response in the Symposium to the labor shortage and the laboratory issues was to increase awareness of the status of laboratory jobs, laboratory reimbursement and state of laboratory debt.

The article announces that Chelsey Gerig will receive the 2012 Bootsma Distinguished Medical Laboratory Sciences Scholarship from the School of Health Sciences at Purdue, Indiana.

The author discusses the goals which make their profession more visible and known by various health care professionals. She mentions that the Clinical Laboratory Science as one of the top 50 best careers (all categories including health care) in 2011 according to the U.S. News. The author also invites the readers for the Annual State Conference of the American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science -Illinois (ASCLS-IL) to be held at the Holiday Inn City Centre, Peoria on April 13 - 15, 2013.

The author offers pieces of advice on how clinical laboratory professionals can learn from near-miss events and develop preventive strategies. She mentions that near-miss events in the healthcare setting refers to unplanned events that nearly resulted in injuries, damages or illnesses. She recommends following through on all near-miss events to evaluate them and to design a near-miss analysis model.

The article discusses the highlights of the legislative symposium held by four clinical laboratory associations in the U.S. on March 16, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The organizations were the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS), American Medical Technologists (AMT), American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), and Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA). Speakers focused on the Workforce Investment Act and the Negotiated Rulemaking for Medicare Reimbursement.