Provena St. Joseph Medical Center Lab Receives Accreditation
Monday October 20, 2008
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From left, children Dakota Mabens, Logan Hendericks, and Matthew Woodall, and father Steven Woodall discuss the insulin pump used for controlling pediatric diabetes with Tseghai Behre, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist at Provena St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill.
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"The lab is the area of the hospital where blood and tissue samples are tested and studied to determine whether illness or disease is present, so quality is absolutely critical in order to have accurate diagnoses," says Joseph Natarelli, DO, medical director of laboratory and pathology, in a news release. "We renew our laboratory accreditation every two years. This accreditation demonstrates to our patients that they can count on us for highly reliable laboratory test results. Being CAP-accredited also means that we not only meet federal requirements, [but that] we exceed them."
The laboratory is staffed by 125 specially trained employees, including medical technologists, medical laboratory technicians, laboratory aides, transcriptionists, phlebotomists, a cytotechnologist, and histology technologists.
