The laboratory at Norton Sound Regional Hospital is a Joint Commission
Certified laboratory. Staffing includes positions for four MT/LS and a Technologist/Manager
as well as two full time Phlebotomists and one part-time Phlebotomist position.
The work-week is 17 hour days Monday through Friday, with the remainder
being worked as “on call”. The laboratory supports a busy inpatient
nursing service and an equally busy outpatient clinic and specialty clinic.
We do a lively outpatient business from each of the fifteen villages that
Norton Sound Regional Hospital supports. We also provide, as an aid to local
businesses, a drug testing collection facility with service to four testing
laboratories. |
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The laboratory service is proud
of its combination of “state-of-the-art” instrumentation, to
include a Siemans Dimension Expand plus, two ABX Pentra C+’s, a Sysmex
CA 500 for coagulation studies, an Opti CCA-TS for blood gases, a Siemans
MicroScan Auto-scan 4, for bacterial identification and sensitivities,
and a Becton Dickenson Probe-Tech for performing GC/Chlamydia studies.
All instruments and Technologists are challenged three times a year utilizing
the “American Proficiency Institute” Proficiency Testing Program. The laboratory at Norton Sound Regional Hospital takes pride in its work
and is looking forward to expanding our capabilities as we move into our
new hospital in 2012-2013. The laboratory staff is pleased to be of service
to western Alaska. |
