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LABORATORY MEDICINE Services The Moncton Hospital's internationally accredited department of Laboratory Medicine provides a comprehensive service to assist other health care professionals in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease and illness. Laboratory Medicine serves all inpatients and clients of the South-East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) and accepts specialty referral work from other hospitals. The department also serves the Greater Moncton Area for diagnostic and therapeutic laboratory testing. Laboratory Medicine operates laboratories out of The Moncton Hospital, Sackville Memorial Hospital and Albert County Health and Wellness Centre. A new laboratory is scheduled for completion in 2007 as part of the next phase of development. At the request of a physician, medical laboratory technologists obtain specimens of body tissue or body fluids and conduct a variety of clinical, microscopic, immunological and microbiological tests to provide accurate, precise and timely analysis and results. Approximately eight physicians, 91 medical laboratory technologists and 44 support staff including lab assistants, phlebotomists and clerical staff work in the department. In 2004 the lab processed 2.44 million tests in total. Medical laboratory technologists work in clinical chemistry, histology, hematology, transfusion medicine, microbiology and cytology. The Moncton Hospital laboratory is the only clinical laboratory in the Atlantic provinces which holds accreditation with the College of American Pathologists. It is also accredited by the Canadian Medical Association as a clinical site for the Medical Laboratory Technology program offered by the Saint John campus of the New Brunswick Community College. As the third largest group of health care professionals in Canada, medical laboratory technologists have an essential role in the nation's health care system. According to the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science (CSMLS), 85 per cent of physicians' diagnosis and treatment decisions are based on laboratory test results. Mission Our mission is to achieve excellence by providing professional, high quality, clinically relevant laboratory services for the people we serve.  Back to top |
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The Moncton Hospital's Laboratory Medicine department provides diagnostic and therapeutic laboratory testing and accepts specialty referral work from other hospitals.
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The laboratory at The Moncton Hospital is the only clinical laboratory in the Atlantic provinces to receive accreditation with the College of American Pathologists.
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