We keep a month - 6 weeks. 
Joyce Weems
Pathology Manager
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Tom T. McNemar [SMTP:TMcNemar@lmhealth.org]
	Sent:	Tuesday, October 03, 2000 1:28 PM
	To:	Histonet (E-mail)
	Subject:	Wet tissue storage....

	Just had a request from one of our pathologists to keep routine
surgical
	specimens for at least a month.  CAP guidelines say 2 weeks after
final sign
	out... Is anyone keeping them longer?

	Tom Mc Nemar, HT(ASCP)
	Pathology Supervisor
	Licking Memorial Hospital
	Newark, Ohio