169 Riverside Drive, Binghamton, NY 13905
Phone: 607-798-5216 • Fax: 607-798-6702
Services available include
- Outpatient Blood Draw
- Cholesterol Screening
- ThinPrep Pap Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening
- Home Draw Blood Collection for Homebound Patients
- Fine Needle Aspiration
Outpatient Laboratory
Our labs welcome orders from all health care providers. No
appointments are necessary.
Lourdes Hospital Outpatient Lab
169 Riverside Drive, Ground Floor, Ambulatory Care
Center, Binghamton, NY
Phone: 607-798-5216 • Fax: 607-798-6702
Hours:
Monday - Friday: 6:30 AM - 8:30 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Holidays: 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM
For your convenience, you may pre-register for
the Outpatient Lab by calling
607-584-5515
Monday - Thursday, 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM.
Our new location in the Ambulatory Care Center allows for
improved services to our patients:
Easy access through our
new main entrance.- Easy access to other services, such as our GI Endoscopy Suite,
Rehabilitation Services, Diagnostic Imaging, and Pre-Admission
Testing.
- A spacious and comfortable reception and waiting area.
- A private
pediatric room.
- State of the art electric reclining chairs for patient
comfort.
The following Lourdes Primary Care Sites are open for
Lab Draws:
- Lourdes Family Practice
1130 Upper Front Street, Binghamton
Phone: 607-772-2995 • Fax: 607-584-7674
Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM
- Center for Family Health
303 Main Street, Binghamton
Phone: 607-798-8058 • Fax: 607-584-4979
Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM
- Owego Family Practice
500 Fifth Avenue, Owego
Phone: 607-687-1122 • Fax: 607-972-2337
Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Pediatric Blood Draw
Service
In order to put children and their parents at ease,
the Lourdes Laboratory offers a Pediatric Phlebotomy Service. A
private room decorated with an animal theme and specially
designated lab technologist for is reserved children who need their
blood drawn.
Parents or guardians of pediatric patients may call Lourdes
Laboratory from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM weekdays at 607-798-5216 to make
a blood draw appointment. Appointments will be scheduled from 10:00
AM - 4:00 PM on weekdays. Once the appointment has been made
through the laboratory, the patient must also call Lourdes
Registration at 607-584-5515 to register for the blood draw.
Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratories
The Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratories provides a
full range of laboratory services to inpatients and Emergency
Department patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Outpatient
services are available as listed below under Patient Service
Centers. Laboratory services are also available to nursing homes,
adult care homes, health department clinics, and community blood
screening programs.
Anatomic Pathology includes Surgical Pathology, Cytopathology,
and Autopsy Pathology. Clinical Pathology includes the Blood
Bank, Chemistry, Hematology, Urinalysis, Microbiology, and
Immunology. Measurements and examinations in both the Anatomic and
Clinical Pathology areas are performed by certified Medical
Technologists, Medical Lab Technicians, and Histotechnologists and
Cytotechnologists.
State-of-the-Art Cervical Cancer Screenings
The ThinPrep® Imaging
System provides increased screening productivity and
improved diagnostic performance to benefit women in the Southern
Tier.
"Lourdes is committed to providing patients with the best new
technology to detect disease early. The ThinPrep® Imaging System
enables us to do that," said James Terzian, M.D. of Twin Tier
Pathology Associates. "Using the ThinPrep® Imaging System offers
significant improvements over previous screening technologies. We
have verified that this innovative System increases sensitivity in
the detection of abnormal cells. Making this technology the
standard in our practice was simply the right thing to do."The
ThinPrep® Imaging System combines revolutionary imaging technology
with human interpretive expertise to improve cervical cancer
screening efficiency and performance. The Lourdes
Laboratory was the first in the area to use the ThinPrep®
Imaging System. Lourdes has been offering the ThinPrep®
Pap Test since 1997 and leverages the ThinPrep® Imaging System as
an enhancement to ThinPrep® Pap Test's improved slide preparation
for all cervical cancer screenings.
The ThinPrep® Pap Test is approved by
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as "significantly more
effective" than the conventional Pap smear for the detection of
cervical abnormalities and is the most widely used Pap test in the
U.S. The ThinPrep® Pap Test is a liquid-based test that employs a
fluid medium to collect and preserve cervical cells. The ThinPrep®
Imaging System is the first fully integrated, interactive computer
system that assists cytotechnologists and pathologists in the
primary screening of ThinPrep® Pap Test slides. Using a complex
algorithm, the System's computer pre-screens a slide and identifies
the most abnormal cells, allowing cytopathologists and
cytotechnologists to focus on the most important fields of view.
This feature allows for decreasing the false negative rate and
provides more sensitivity to detect positive results.
Accreditation
The laboratory is accredited by the New York State Department of
Health (NYSDOH) and College of American Pathologists (CAP).
Medical Direction
Medical direction for the laboratory is provided by five
board-certified pathologists:
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