Laboratory
Our Services
The Laboratory at Brant Community Healthcare System performs over 1.5 million tests per year.
- Anatomical Pathology - preparing samples of tissue to aid in the microscopic detection and diagnosis of disease.
- Chemistry - performing tests on blood and body fluids to detect chemicals, hormones and/or drugs
- Hematology - performing tests to measure blood cells and to detect diseases/disorders of the blood
- Microbiology - performing tests on blood, body fluids and/or tissue to detect bacteria, fungus, viruses and/or parasites and provides important results for infection control
- Point of Care Testing - providing quality assurance programs for testing done by the patient bedside
- Transfusion Medicine - performing blood typing and compatibility testing
Our Team
We are a team of Medical Laboratory Assistants, Medical Laboratory Technologists, Pathology Assistant and Pathologists.
Our team works 365 days and 24/7 to provide fast, reliable, quality results to assist your physicians to treat and diagnose your medical needs.
Our Commitment to Quality
We are accredited to the IQMH Standard. This provides formal recognition to an international ISO standard with particular requirements for quality and competence of medical laboratories.
Accreditation to this internationally recognized standard assures consistency in the quality of care the laboratory provides, up to date technology reflecting best practice with competent staff to perform assigned tasks.
Laboratory services are patient focused and involve all staff in the continual monitoring and improvement of service.
The Lab at BCHS is accredited by the Accreditation Canada Diagnostics and licensed by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.