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Laboratory Services   at
Chinook Regional Hospital
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 2 weeks
Alberta Health Services - Provincial Health Services
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Laboratory Services provides collection of blood and body fluids for tests ordered by your doctor or healthcare provider.Laboratory Services provides collection of blood and body fluids for tests ordered by your doctor or healthcare provider including a comprehensive range of routine and specialized lab testing and clinical consultations:
  • blood and body fluid sample collection
  • biochemistry and toxicology
  • electrocardiogram (ECG)
  • genetics and genomics
  • urinalysis
  • transfusion medicine
  • hematology
  • coagulation studies
  • microbiology
  • public health testing
  • serology
  • surgical pathology
  • cytopathology
  • autopsy pathology
  • student practicum training for medical lab technologists and medical lab assistants
Note: Some locations may not offer the full range of testing. To confirm availability of a specific test, contact the location.

APL Booking Line: 1-877-702-4486 or book online.
Laboratory Services provides collection of blood and body fluids for tests ordered by your doctor or healthcare provider.Laboratory Services provides collection of blood and body fluids for tests ordered by your doctor or healthcare provider including a comprehensive range of routine and specialized lab testing and clinical consultations:
  • blood and body fluid sample collection
  • biochemistry and toxicology
  • electrocardiogram (ECG)
  • genetics and genomics
  • urinalysis
  • transfusion medicine
  • hematology
  • coagulation studies
  • microbiology
  • public health testing
  • serology
  • surgical pathology
  • cytopathology
  • autopsy pathology
  • student practicum training for medical lab technologists and medical lab assistants
Note: Some locations may not offer the full range of testing. To confirm availability of a specific test, contact the location.

APL Booking Line: 1-877-702-4486 or book online.
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
Services may vary by site. Please contact us for more details.

Requisition required for all collections. Appointment through APL Appointments booking online at https://aplappointments.ca or call to make an appointment 1-833-572-0577.  Referral is not required.
Services may vary by site. Please contact us for more details.

Requisition required for all collections. Appointment through APL Appointments booking online at https://aplappointments.ca or call to make an appointment 1-833-572-0577.  Referral is not required.
URGENT REFERRAL PROCESS
Direct patients to an urgent care centre if they are experiencing unexpected, but non-life threatening health concern, illness or injury that require same day/evening treatment. Health Link is also available for advice by dialing 8-1-1
Direct patients to an urgent care centre if they are experiencing unexpected, but non-life threatening health concern, illness or injury that require same day/evening treatment. Health Link is also available for advice by dialing 8-1-1
EMERGENCY REFERRAL PROCESS
This service does not have an emergency referral process. Direct patients to the nearest Emergency Department if they are experiencing a serious illness or injury. Patients with potentially life threatening conditions should immediately phone 9-1-1
This service does not have an emergency referral process. Direct patients to the nearest Emergency Department if they are experiencing a serious illness or injury. Patients with potentially life threatening conditions should immediately phone 9-1-1
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
Closed Saturday, Sunday and Statutory holidays.
Testing Laboratory hours of operation are 24/7
Employment related drug testing not performed at this site.
Closed Saturday, Sunday and Statutory holidays.
Testing Laboratory hours of operation are 24/7
Employment related drug testing not performed at this site.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Communication of referral receipt to referral source will occur within 7 calendar days.
  • Communication of appointment details or wait list status to patient and referral source will occur within 14 calendar days.
  • Communication of initial appointment outcomes to referral source will occur within 30 calendar days.
 
PHONE
403-388-6057 (Lab)
FAX
403-388-6068 (Testing Lab)
403-388-6379 (Outpatient Lab)
REFERRAL PHONE
403-388-6201
REFERRAL FAX
403-388-6379
LINKED SPECIALISTS
CLICK + TO VIEW REFERRAL GUIDELINES
Routine Reason for Referral
Access Targets convey the clinically appropriate timeframe patients should be seen within, by reason for referral and priority level.
Access Target
Required Information/Investigations
Timing
Additional Details
ECG
List of Medications
 
Within 3 months

Previous medical history
 
Within 6 months

Hematology test performed
List of Medications
 
Within 3 months

Previous medical history
 
Within 6 months

Laboratory service
List of Medications
 
Within 3 months

Previous medical history
 
Within 6 months
Routine and specialized blood and body fluid testing and clinical consultation

Lactose tolerance test
List of Medications
 
Within 3 months

Previous medical history
 
Within 6 months

Microbiology
List of Medications
 
Within 3 months

Previous medical history
 
Within 6 months

Serology service
List of Medications
 
Within 3 months

Previous medical history
 
Within 6 months

Urinalysis
List of Medications
 
Within 3 months

Previous medical history
 
Within 6 months
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
Missed appointment will receive a letter regarding scheduling.
Missed appointment will receive a letter regarding scheduling.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Description:
Monday to Friday 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM.

This lab serves hospital inpatient, Ambulatory Clinic patients, by physician or clinic referral only.

Alternate Patient Service Centres offer both appointment and walk-in services for all patients that require lab work. Book online at https://qme.dynalife.ca/ or call 1-877-702-4486 to make an appointment.

Walk ins accepted until 30 min before closing.
   
 
ADDRESS
Outpatient Collection site & Testing Laboratory. Laboratory entrance and parking on 17 Street.
960 19 Street S
Lethbridge Alberta
T1J 1W5
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
 
DIRECTIONS
Chinook Regional Hospital is located on 19th Street South in Lethbridge.
Directions
Chinook Regional Hospital is located on 19th Street South in Lethbridge.
Directions
 
PHONE
403-388-6057 (Lab)
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
PARKING MAP
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

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The locations listed have 3 background colors:
  • Green means the healthcare service@location has referral information attached to it.
  • Brown means the healthcare service@location never had referral information attached to it, or it has unpublished referral information.
  • Red means
    • IA changed the healthcare service@location's status to something other than Current
    • It was deleted if it is an ARD healthcare service@location.
Green  and Brown are always at the top of the list. These are the Healthcare Service@Locations with the status of Current.
The Red list at the bottom consists of non-current Healthcare Service@locations that once had Published referral information in the ARD.
If the referral information was never published in ARD the Healthcare Service@location will not show in the Red list.

The secondary purpose of the All Locations list is to allow ARD Administrators to recover (copy) referral information from the non-current Healthcare Service@Locations to ones that are current.

Common Scenario:
A Healthcare Service moves from one location to another. In this case the IA Healthcare Service@Location record will be made defunct (non-current) and a new Healthcare Service@Location record will be created with a current status. In this scenario the captured referral guidelines in ARD can become "orphaned" as they are not attached to any current IA healthcare service.

Categories of non-current or orphaned referral guidelines: INDIVIDUAL and COMMON.
The REFERRAL GUIDELINES section of the profile has the prefix INDIVIDUAL or COMMON to help you choose the method below when transferring referral guidelines from a non-current Healthcare Service@Location to a current healthcare service@location.

Individual referral process
  1. Click on a non-current (Red) Healthcare Service@Location at the bottom of the All Locations list.
  2. The non-current referral info is displayed with the link Copy this Referral Process to another Healthcare Service@Location link on the upper right hand corner. Click on the copy link.
  3. Choose a current location (Green or Brown) from the All Locations list. This will be the Healthcare Service@Location you are pasting the referral info into.
  4. The system will display the Edit Referral Info screen populated with the referral info from the non-current Healthcare Service@Location you viewed in the first step.
  5. Click Save and the referral info is transferred from the non-current Healthcare Service@Location to the current one.
  6. Repeat these steps for each Healthcare Service@Location that needs attention.

Common referral process - 2 sub cases.
Case 1: At least 1 current Healthcare Service@Location with common referral info is with current status for this healthcare service; One or more Healthcare Healthcare Service@Locations where replaced by new one.
  1. Click on any current Healthcare Service@Location whether it has referral info (Green) or not (Brown).
  2. The healthcare service location opens in the Edit Referral Info screen populated with the current common referral info.
  3. Save it. 
  4. All locations will be updated with the common referral information, including all the locations that don't have referral info yet (Brown). The non-current referrals (Red) will also be updated.
Case 2:  All Healthcare Healthcare Service@Locations for a healthcare service are set to a non-current status and replaced by new ones. In this case there is no current additional referral info to copy from, so the only alternative is to pick up the non-current common referral process (Red). Follow the steps described in the section Individual Referral Process above to copy/paste the non-current common referral info to the current healthcare service locations.
Generally we want to replicate current common referral info to new or replaced healthcare service locations. We only resort to copying non-current common referral info if there is no other option.

Remember: Some fields can be location specific with the common referral process:
Parking Instructions, Directions, Parking Map, Wait Time, Referral Phone or Referral Fax.
To update these items you have to edit each Healthcare Service@Location separately.

ADDITONAL NOTES:
  • The info icon after the All Locations drop down will be visible to ARD Administrators.
  • The system doesn't allow you to copy referral information from one non-current Healthcare Service@Location to another.

 

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