Patients Served
All Inpatients at NBRHC and outpatients from North Bay and surrounding areas.
Overview
The Department of Laboratory Services at the North Bay Regional Health Centre is committed to providing quality laboratory services for inpatients, registered outpatients, and referred-in testing.
The Laboratory assists the health care provider in the delivery of patient care by providing consultative services, procurement and testing to investigate and /or monitor illness or to identify a state of well being. The Department of Laboratory Services consists of Core Lab (Hematology, Biochemistry, Transfusion Medicine, Microbiology, Histopathology/Cytology and Laboratory Specimen Procurement) and Dispatch (Central Receiving/Phlebotomy).
Additional Information
During other times than regular hours of operation, weekends and statutory holidays there is a skeleton staff adequate to cover only those inpatient procedures considered essential to manage the acutely ill patient. Similarly, the service is not designed for outpatients, unless there is an emergency (a state in which the life of the patient is in danger).
Weekends and Statutory Holidays technologists make scheduled blood collections at 7:00 am and 1:00 pm. Other blood collections are made by telephoned request to the Main Laboratory.