Why Use Northern Westchester Laboratory Services?

NWH Laboratory Services provides the caring, professional environment of your community hospital

• The highest quality testing services for your patients and your practice
• Knowledgeable, experienced pathologists and technologists who are alwasy available for consult
• Continuity of care between your office and the Hospital
• A full range of services

Competitive Turnaround Time

• Most routine testing completed on the same day
• Comprehensive in-house menu for expeditious lab service
• Collaboration with Mayo Medical Laboratories for esoteric testing and timely reporting

NWH lab offers a variety of ways to receive patients’ results; electronic, faxed to your office, and/or hardcopy delivered daily by courier.

How to Get Your Patient’s Results and Order Entry

For electronic transmission, NWH will provide your office access to Care Evolve, a company whose industry-leading product is an internet solution for laboratory outreach results reporting and order entry. Care Evolve can deliver results to EMR’s in HL7 discrete date fields. In addition, your patients’ results are available for you to view in Meditech, the hospital information system.

A Meditech link can be established via Citrix for easy access to your patient’s labs on your PC.

About our Lab Services

Consultation

• Clinical and anatomic pathology with prompt follow-up by pathologists and laboratory specialists
• Access to the lab’s medical and administrative directors

Diagnostic Services

• Full-service laboratory
• Broad range of tests using advanced instrumentation and technically proven methodologies, ensuring rapid and accurate results

Anatomic Pathology

• Cytopathology
• Fine-needle aspiration biopsies
• Histology
• Immunochemistry techniques
• Surgical pathology
• Frozen section analysis

Hematology

• Peripheral blood and bone marrow studies
• Diagnostic and therapeutic monitoring of blood disorders

Coagulation

• Wide range of hemostatic testing
• Testing for hereditary bleeding and thrombotic disorders

Clinical Chemistry, Urinalysis and Immunoassay

Extensive repertoire of chemical analyte quantification through state-of-the-art instrumentation

Microbiology

• Expert consultants in bacteriology, mycology, mycobacteriology and parasitology
• Wide range of organism identification and susceptibility testing

Transfusion Service

• Pretransfusion testing
• Immediate access to regional blood center that provides all blood products

Outreach Services

• Outreach services provided to assisted living facilities, physician offices and clinics
• Continuing medical education programs through Mayo Medical Laboratories
• Courier services offering specimen pickups daily
• Responsive customer service team