Laboratory services: Innovators in the laboratory industry

UW Health offers many types of clinical laboratory services. Please note not all services are provided at all locations. Services include:

• Blood count

• Urinalysis

• Cholesterol tests

• Hemoglobin tests

• Spinal fluid analysis

• Liver function tests

• Immunology and allergy testing

• Diagnostic testing

• Transfusion medicine

• Pathology

• Therapeutic drug monitoring

Lab Test Directory

For information about specimen collection and turnaround times for Stat and routine testing please check:

In Wisconsin: Lab Test Directory

In Illinois: Reference Test Directory

UW Health labs are located within our community clinics and provide lab work on-site as part of your routine medical care.

Our hospitals offer lab service 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with most tests performed on-site, allowing our caregivers to provide care to their patients quickly.

Turnaround times for stat and routine testing are provided in the Test Directory entries. Stated turnaround times indicate the anticipated time between the time a specimen is received in the performing laboratory until the time a result is released. Testing may be delayed for a variety of reasons that include:

1. Specimens collected at a UW Health Satellite Lab location must be transported to the performing laboratory for testing or processing if the testing will not be performed at the satellite location.

2. Equipment failure at testing lab requires transport of specimens routinely done on site to an alternate laboratory.

3. Failure to include necessary patient identification information on the specimen or the requisition.

4. Improper specimen container submitted.

5. Failure to order testing STAT.

Specimen collection, container types and processing can affect the quality of the specimen submitted.

UW Health hospital-owned clinics are accredited by The Joint Commission, the College of American Pathologists, the American Association of Blood Banks, the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy and the Food and Drug Administration.