Lab

WHERE THE SCIENCE HAPPENS.

Our full-service medical lab team has the answers you’re looking for.


Lab Services and Outpatient Care

 

If a hospital has a nerve center, it would be its lab. After all, without testing, medical diagnoses would be little more than best guesses.

 

With St. Tammany Health System’s accredited, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities, Northshore residents can have confidence in our full-service lab testing services – from blood draws to X-rays and beyond – whether they’re an inpatient at our Covington hospital or an outpatient at one of our myriad satellite facilities.

 

Our in-house lab at St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington (1202 S. Tyler St., Covington | 985-898-4417), which operates 24 hours a day and seven days a week, is accredited by the Joint Commission and the American Association of Blood Banks, and it is staffed with board-certified pathologists, licensed medical laboratory scientists and experienced phlebotomists who together perform approximately 3 million tests per year.

Our Mandeville Diagnostic Center (201 St. Ann Drive, Ste. A, Mandeville | 985-612-2110), located next to our St. Tammany Physicians Network primary care clinic in Mandeville, is open from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday to handle a range of outpatient lab testing, imaging services, and more.

And our Paul D. Cordes Outpatient Pavilion (16300 Highway 1085, Covington | 985-871-6080) also offers full lab testing and imaging services Mondays through Saturdays (7 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays; 7 to 11 a.m. on Saturday), as well as a range of specialty services Mondays through Fridays only. They include:

    • Pre-Op services
    • Cardiology services
    • Pulmonary function testing
    • EEG - Electroencephalogram
    • Cardiac Rehabilitation
    • Pulmonary Rehabilitation
    • Clinic for Wound care and Hyperbaric Medicine

 

 


Have questions?

As a patient, you have the right to contact any of the resources below if you perceive that the laboratory has not adequately resolved your concerns:

 

  • Joint Commission’s Office of Quality Monitoring, 1-800-944-6610 or www.jointcommission.org.
  • Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Central Office, Division of Laboratory Services (CLIA), 1-877-267-2323 extension 6351 or click here.
  • American Association of Blood Banks, 1-301-215-6492 or accreditation@aabb.org.