The St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital laboratory medical and technical professionals work with other health care professionals to:

• Ensure that our clients receive the highest quality patient centered care.
• Provide customized care that satisfies the needs of physicians and individual patient requirements in an acute care setting.
• Provide technical and medical support for the diagnosis, monitoring, and screening of hospital outpatients, ambulatory and emergency patients, as well as medical, surgical, obstetric, primary and secondary hospital care patient

The laboratory is part of the hospital’s clinical support program. The opportunity gained by working within hospital programs, is to coordinate laboratory medicine with other health care requirements for best patient outcomes and hospital-wide efficiency.

The Laboratory is responsible for the coordination of the following within St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital:

• Surgical Pathology/Cytology
• Blood Bank
• Microbiology
• Hematology
• Clinical Chemistry

Hours

New Outpatient services hours of operation:
Monday	7:30 am - 10:30am
Tuesday	3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Wednesday	Closed
Thursday	7:30 am - 10:30 am
Friday	3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Saturday	7:30 am - Noon
Sunday	Closed

Location

Laboratory Services is located on the First floor of main building, east wing.
Laboratory tests by physician order only.

Contact

Main Laboratory Office
Phone:	(519) 631-2030  Ext: 2079
Pathology Office
Phone:	(519) 631-2030 Ext: 2102
Fax:	(519) 631-1083
Email:	laboratory@stegh.on.ca

Related Links

Lab Tests Online
A Public Resource on Clinical Lab Testing from the Laboratory Professionals who do the testing

Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science