Pace Pediatrics is the latest recipient of COLA's Laboratory Excellence Award, an award that recognizes those laboratories that demonstrate exemplary patient testing.

COLA's Laboratory Excellence Award is bestowed on COLA laboratories that complete an on-site survey and are found to have superior laboratory safety and practices for their patients.

COLA is a nonprofit, physician-directed organization promoting quality and excellence in medicine and patient care through programs of voluntary education, achievement and accreditation.

COLA is approved by the federal government and sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, the College of American Pathologists and the American Osteopathic Association.