Anoymous

As a Laboratory Director for a small community Critical Access Hospital, I am opposed to this new program. The new mandatory direct observation legislation has the potential to greatly increase the number of direct obseration collections that our facility will have to perform. To do this type of collection in a non-objectionable manner for all concerned, we must have a male available to observe a male employee. We have many shifts where a male would not be available anywhere in the hospital. The only males would be security; and since they are contracted, this is not going to be in their job description. Many of the collections will be on male employees. D.O.T drug screen collections are already very time consuming; and with the issue of finding suitable people 7/24 to provide the potential increased number of direct observations, I foresee us having to review the suitability of providing this service at all. Companies may find themselves having to send their employees 30 - 35 miles to get a D.O.T drug screen collected if we find ourselves no longer being able to comply with increased volume of direct observed collections.