PinnacleHealth’s highly-skilled laboratory professionals use the best technology available today in a caring and compassionate environment. In addition, we are a full-service Transfusion Service and Donor Center.
Here are some of the Laboratory highlights:
- Robotic line that receives, centrifuges, aliquots, delivers to the instruments, stores and recovers patient samples. Results uploaded from the Laboratory Information System (LIS) and electronically delivered to the patients’ charts.
- Gel technology is used to perform antibody screens and antibody identification and soon will be using automation to perform those tasks.
- Comprehensive toxicology testing
- Large state-of-the art donor center
- Approximately 35,000 pathology cases are prepared and evaluated per year
- Accredited by:
- The College of American Pathologists Laboratory Accreditation Program
- Pennsylvania Department of Health
- American Association of Blood Banks
- Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act
- The Federal Drug Administration.