Celebrating Medical Laboratory Professionals Week

This week, we’re celebrating Medical Laboratory Professionals Week!

EORLA's medical laboratory professionals are the unseen champions of patient care, processing over 13 million lab tests each year.  Without them, the testing, diagnosing and treatment process in our health care system could not function. Doctors rely on the medical lab test results to contribute up to 85 percent of medical decisions and 100 percent in cases of cancer.

This week we celebrate the dedication, pride, and excellence that laboratory professionals demonstrate daily and we thank them for their continued contributions to patient care.  This includes administrative staff, technicians, technologists, pathology assistants, and pathologists.  

Fun Facts About the EORLA/QCH lab:

• Working 24/7, the EORLA/QCH lab team consists of 1 administrative staff, 28 registered Medical Laboratory Technologists, 37 Laboratory Technicians, 2 Pathology Assistants, and 5 Pathology Physicians.

• 55,000 patient blood collections are performed at QCH each year in all areas of the hospital including inpatients, clinics, and emergency department.  They also support 10,000 IGFCC patient collections.

• Approximately 1.1 million tests per year are performed on site at the QCH lab.

• Approximately 22,000 transfusion medicine tests are performed and about 400 units of blood are transfused per month.