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Laboratory and Pathology
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Laboratory Office:
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740-439-8068 |
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Laboratory Manager: |
740-439-8055 |
We are always interested in receiving your input
and learning how we can better meet your needs. Please feel free to
contact us and share your thoughts.
Directions to Out Patient Laboratory Area
Patient Tips for Better
Service
For Faster
Service, Be Sure to Have...
Quality
Control
Lab Testing
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Southeastern Med's Brick
Church Road Campus
Directions to Laboratory Drawing Site
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Park in the lot closest to the building
in the Patient/Customer Parking Area
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Enter the facility through the Main
Entrance and proceed through the waiting area to the
Reception window immediately in front of you.
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The receptionist will contact the
Laboratory associate who will treat all customers in
turn--“first come, first served.”
Brick Church Road Hours of Operation
Monday through Friday: 6:00 am - 2:00 pm
Closed Saturday, Sunday and Holidays
Southeastern Med's Main Campus
Directions to
Out-Patient Registration / Laboratory Area
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Park in the “Yellow Lot”. This will be
the first parking lot you pass after you enter SEORMC from
Clark Street.
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Enter the Medical Center through the
Main Lobby entrance and follow the hallway to the visitor
elevators.
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Take the elevator to the Ground Floor.
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The volunteer desk will be straight in
front of you when you reach the Ground Floor. The volunteers
at the desk will be able to assist you from this point.
Main Campus Out-patient Hours
Monday through Friday from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm and
Saturday from 7:00 am to 11:00 am.
We do not have routine outpatient hours on Sunday or holidays.
Special arrangements can be made for off-hours registration and
test collection at the Main Campus.
Please call the Laboratory in advance to make these
arrangements.
Patient Tips for Better
Service
Fasting Tests - There are times that your
physician may order tests that require you to go without eating or
drinking for a period of time, otherwise known as fasting. These
tests include Lipid Profile, triglyceride, and HDL cholesterol among
others. Normally, you should not eat or drink for 10 hours prior to
having blood drawn for these tests. Your doctor will advise you
about fasting for tests she or he has ordered.
Medication Levels - Some medications that
your doctor prescribes need to be monitored periodically, among
these are heart medications such as Digoxin, anti-convulsant
medications such as Dilantin, and blood thinners such as Coumadin.
It is important to follow your doctor’s instructions on how long to
wait to have your blood drawn after taking your medication,
typically you should wait 4-6 hours.
For Faster Service,
Be Sure to Have...
Insurance Information - In order for our
Registration Clerks to get you registered quickly and correctly,
please be sure to bring your insurance card.
Physician’s Order - Your doctor will give you a Laboratory
requisition indicating what tests you are to have done, along with
other information for Laboratory use. Federal regulations that guide
the Laboratory require that we receive this order before we register
you, the patient.
Quality Control
Roughly 20-25% of the work performed in the
Laboratory is Quality Control (QC) testing. This is testing that is
done to assure that the results we report are accurate. Two of the
primary methods of QC employed by the Laboratory include:
Commercial QC Material - This is material produced by an
outside manufacturer. The manufacturer performs testing on samples
taken from large batches of this material and a statistical analysis
is made of the results. When we receive the QC material we also are
given a range of expected results, our results should fall in this
range. If our results fall outside the expected range we will
investigate the problem, and we do not report any patient results
until we have found and corrected the problem.
Proficiency Testing - There are special organizations that
provide us with “blind” specimens. These specimens are tested by a
large number of different Laboratories and the results are returned
for evaluation. The results that we obtain are compared to all other
Laboratories that have performed these tests and we receive a “pass”
or “fail” score. These scores are forwarded to the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which is a branch of the Federal
government that monitors Laboratories. If we would consistently
score less than 80% on a particular test, we could no longer perform
that test.
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