Laboratory
Director: Roger Lawrence
For Information: 620-252-1141
The Laboratory Department plays an important role in a patient's healthcare quality, with respect to diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease. CRMC's Laboratory is centrally located to serve both inpatients and outpatients. The easily accessible waiting area and separate phlebotomy area, help the Lab staff give outpatients more privacy during their lab healthcare encounter. Because of extensive testing menu of CRMC Lab, there are many Lab subdepartments.
- Phlebotomy
- Hematology
- Chemistry
- Blood Banking
- Microbiology
- Histology
- Urinalysis
- Coagulation
- Serology
- Blood Gases
- Point-of-Care
Registered Lab Techs use sophisticated, automated, equipment and instruments that perform a number of tests simultaneously, as well as microscopes and cell counters to perform more "manual" testing, to safely perform quality, complex testing, to analyze body fl uids, tissues, and cells. The results are analyzed, evaluated, and relayed to physicians to help deliver quality patient care.
The CRMC Lab is available for inpatient testing 24 hours a day, seven days a week while the majority of the outpatient testing is done on a more regular business hour schedule. The CRMC Lab goes beyond the necessary regulations, to assure the highest quality of laboratory testing possible, as evidenced by the years of continually successful biannual JCAHO Lab Surveys. Updates by manufacturers and reagent vendors, along with continued acquisition of "state-of- the-art" instrumentation for testing, on a rotational basis through the various subdepartments, also helps assure quality testing for quality patient care.
CRMC Phlebotomists, Histologists, Lab Techs, and Pathologist are proud of the diversity, hard work, attention to detail, and commitment their job requires. It's a good feeling to know that people depend on you to do your job well. When you have the confidence that you can do that job, it makes your professional life a very satisfying experience.