Provides laboratory services to the Emergency Department, inpatients and outpatients registered in one of the hospital clinics * also offers outpatient bloodwork for patients referred by physicians who have hospital privileges at Halton Healthcare
Laboratory 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
Wheelchair Accessible