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Hornell Rotary Partners with St. James Mercy Hospital
for Community Blood Screening May 19th
May 8, 2012, Hornell, NY
Press Release (PDF)
The Hornell Rotary Club has engaged the laboratory services of St. James Mercy Hospital for its annual Community Blood Screening. The screening will be offered from 6:00 to 10:00AM on Saturday, May 19th in the St. James Mercy Hospital Cafeteria. Participants should use the Canisteo Street Entrance.
The Community Blood Screening Program serves as an early warning system for residents in identifying current or potential health problems. A comprehensive blood screening is conducted for a $35 fee with the results sent to the participant’s physician. Additional screening for prostate cancer is available for an additional fee as well.
To register, please contact St. James Mercy Hospital at (607) 324-8092 between the hours of 9:00AM to Noon or 5:00PM-7:00PM, Monday through Friday.
Laboratory Services
The St. James Mercy Hospital Laboratory consists of a group of individual departments working as one to meet all of the diverse needs of our patients in a manner that is consistent with our Mission Statement. Although each department has unique and individual functions, they work together providing physicians with accurate, reliable data to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of our patients. Our laboratory staff combines a multitude of experience with the latest technology to insure the highest quality possible in the shortest amount of time.
Our laboratory is accredited by three separate agencies
These agencies continuously inspect and survey our laboratory to guarantee our laboratory methods are reliable and our laboratory staff is proficient so that all patient results reliable.
At St. James Mercy Laboratory, we are constantly evolving to provide the best possible service to the patient. Our inpatient laboratory service is one of the best providing twenty-four hour coverage seven days a week. Our pathologist is readily available to physicians for consults to interpret or discuss laboratory results at any time.
Hours and Laboratories
St. James Hospital Laboratory is open
Monday through Friday, 7am to 8pm
Weekends, 7:30am to 3:30pm
Call (607) 324-8080
The Elm Street Lab (drawing station) is open
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 7:30am to noon
Drug Screening Collection Services
As another service to our community, we provide private companies with certified breath alcohol and urine drug screening collections. All collectors are certified in the collection of urine drug screens and measuring of breath alcohol. Companies can call to schedule appointments at (607) 324-8279.
Autologous Blood Donation Collection
St. James Mercy Laboratory also provides patients with autologous blood donation collection. This is a service where patients scheduled for elective surgery at St. James Mercy Health can donate their own blood, which will be stored and transfused to them if needed during that elective surgery procedure. Most local facilities require the patient to travel to Rochester for this collection.
Here at St. James Mercy Hospital Laboratory, we believe it is not only our goal to provide physicians with the most accurate and reliable results, but in following our Mission Statement it is also our goal to meet the ever-changing needs of our most valuable commodity, the diverse population of patients.
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