Gary A. Joyce, MT(ASCP), MHA | DCCS Interim Laboratory Executive
Gary A. Joyce, MT(ASCP), MHA, is a DCCS Interim Laboratory Executive with DCCS Laboratory Advisory Services. A laboratorian for more than three decades with 25 years in leadership, Gary excels in stabilizing lab operations, leading post-merger integrations, and aligning facilities with regulatory, financial and staffing goals.
He brings deep expertise in regulatory compliance, IT integration (Epic/Beaker), and enterprise-level quality and engagement strategies.
Laboratory Leadership Through Integration and Change
Gary provides interim and project-based laboratory operations leadership when a hospital laboratory is going through a merger, a system conversion or a new build. As part of DCCS interim management, he works alongside existing laboratory teams and hospital leadership to keep testing, compliance and staffing steady while the change takes hold.
Key Expertise
Comprehensive leadership experience across all laboratory specialties, including chemistry, hematology, urinalysis, transfusion services, pathology, microbiology, cytology, molecular diagnostics and cytogenetics.
Extensive regulatory expertise with CAP, Joint Commission and Department of Health standards, from both sides of the inspection.
Stabilized and optimized lab operations across multiple health systems, ensuring compliance, improving efficiency and enhancing staff engagement.
Diverse healthcare experience including academic medical centers, trauma hospitals, community and rural hospitals, and large reference/core laboratories, leading teams from fewer than 30 to more than 350 employees.
Extensive project management of laboratory-related construction, including outpatient draw sites, ambulatory surgery centers, core lab facilities and new hospital builds.
Served as Laboratory Liaison for the implementation of Epic and Epic Beaker across a ten-facility health system, ensuring seamless integration of laboratory operations.
How Gary Supports DCCS Laboratory Advisory Services
Gary serves hospitals through DCCS Laboratory Advisory Services, which pairs interim laboratory leadership with laboratory operational assessments, compliance and inspection readiness and performance improvement. His integration experience helps DCCS keep a hospital laboratory stable through mergers, system conversions and new builds, so patient care across the emergency department, surgery and inpatient units is not disrupted.
See what DCCS laboratory engagements have delivered for hospitals on the DCCS laboratory client outcomes page.
Part of the DCCS Laboratory Leadership Bench
Gary is one of the experienced leaders on the DCCS laboratory leadership bench, who provide interim hospital management and on-site laboratory consulting.
Connect with DCCS to learn more about Gary A. Joyce and DCCS interim laboratory leadership.
