Core Labs

Division of Core Labs

The Core Laboratories are located at all 3 sites across the city (Victoria Hospital, University Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital). Core Labs at Victoria and University Hospital and are staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by a dedicated team of nearly 80 medical laboratory technologists. These automated labs perform thousands of tests each day in hematology, coagulation, chemistry and immunochemistry.

The Core Labs provide initial, rapid, ground testing and screening for all the hospital service areas and provide technical expertise and support to smaller laboratories in the community. The lab also works in partnership with other laboratories at LHSC to provide complete investigational results to the clinicians.

Services Include:

• Volatile Gas Chromatography screening for South Western region. Screening for Ethanol, Methanol, Acetone, Isopropanol and Ethylene Glycol.
• Aminoglycoside testing for South Western Ontario including Vancomycin.
• Laboratory Services for Regional Mental Health – London and St. Thomas and Parkwood Hospital.
• Collaborative partnership with Trillium Gift of Life to provide serology testing for the South Western region.
• Research testing in collaboration with the University of Western Ontario and Lawson Health Research Institute.
• Provides diagnostic expertise for hematology differential testing, fluid testing and clinical biochemistry support to the South Western Region.
• Professional staff (biochemists and hematologists) provide support to the region as required.

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