Laboratory services for the Emergency Department, inpatients, and outpatients registered in one of the hospital clinics

Services include:

• hematology: study of blood cells and plasma in the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of a wide variety of clinical disorders, include anemia, leukemia, hereditary diseases, clotting defects and chemotherapy
• biochemistry: analysis and measurement of blood and body fluids in both health and disease
• Point of Care Testing (POCT): laboratory testing to be performed faster and closer to the patient, such as blood glucose monitoring
• transfusion medicine: blood grouping and providing compatible blood cells and other blood products for surgery, trauma cases and supporting patients during chemotherapy and end stage disease
• microbiology: a variety of specimens are tested from patients suspected of having infections for treatment and for the Infection Prevention and Control program
• surgical pathology: tissue specimens removed during clinic visits, surgery and at autopsy may be processed and examined for cellular abnormalities
• cytology: microscopic examination of cells collected from organs in the body to detect and diagnose precancerous changes, cancer and some infections

Mon-Fri 8am-4pm (outpatient blood collection services for patients registered in hospital clinics only)

Requisition is required