Laboratory

The Laboratory provides a range of laboratory tests to assist the medical staff in the diagnosis and treatment of patients. This is a walk-in lab, no appointments are needed.

Blood Draw

Some tests are time sensitive and only be drawn on certain days. Recommends calling the laboratory to confirm laboratory tests.

Fasting Tests

Some tests require the patient not to eat or drink anything for a period of twelve hours. The only exceptions are water and medications.

WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) Program:

• Patient must provide the form from the WIC office.
• Patient should come in for blood test no later than two weeks before the next WIC appointment.
• No WIC blood draws on Fridays.
• WIC results may be obtained at the nursing reception desk, 72 hours after blood draw.

We recommend patients not to go to the bathroom prior to coming in the Laboratory.

Turnaround Time

• Only 20% of the specimens collected or submitted are tested here. The others are sent to LRMC. Turnaround time for onsite testing is one hour, while turnaround time for test sent to LRMC is between 1-14 days.