Physician / Pathology / California / Permanent / Pediatric Pathology Physician - Central California

Company: Integrity Healthcare...
Location: Santa Maria
Posted on: June 19, 2022

Job Description:

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - provides a comprehensive array of laboratory-based services for infants, children, adolescents, and adults.

We specialize in performing testing on the smallest possible sample sizes in order to limit the amount of blood taken from a patient at any one time and across the duration of the patient's stay. The Department is staffed by approximately 100 team members, including pathologists, clinical laboratory scientists and laboratory support technicians (phlebotomists and processing specialists) and performs over 900,000 tests per year, including over 13,000 surgical, autopsy, and cytology cases.

The clinical and anatomic laboratories are nationally accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and are licensed by the California State Department of Health Services. The transfusion service is accredited by AABB and is registered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Laboratory services are provided for both hospitalized patients (inpatients) and outpatients, including those seen by on-campus practices and private physician practices throughout the Central Valley.

Services are available Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. -(closed on Saturday and Sunday).

Services Offered

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine includes the following laboratories

Anatomic and surgical pathology

Clinical laboratory:

Core Laboratory: - includes hematology, coagulation, urinalysis, chemistry, blood gas analysis

Transfusion service

Flow cytometry

Microbiology

Molecular biology

Point of care testing

Other services include

A comprehensive referral testing department, staffed with individuals who specialize in finding sources for estoteric laboratory tests that are unavailable locally.

Pediatric phlebotomy, performed by State-certified phlebotomists with extensive post-certification pediatric training and experience, in order to minimize specimen collection pain and to meet the special needs of pediatric patients.

A regional provider of sweat chloride testing, a test used to help in the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.

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