Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) is pleased to announce a partnership with Sonora Quest Laboratories in Flagstaff that ensures quick-turnaround, rapid and urgent laboratory testing for northern Arizona patients and their health care providers.
In partnership with Sonora Quest Laboratories, NAH ensures that patients in northern Arizona have access to rapid test results by serving as the point of processing for Sonora Quest’s STAT lab requests. This partnership ensures that those turnarounds are not delayed and results can continue to help providers make critical care decisions at the right time for patients in northern Arizona.
“This partnership provides health care providers and patients in the Flagstaff community with access to urgent laboratory test results by combining the collection network of Sonora Quest Laboratories with the local testing expertise of the Flagstaff Medical Center (FMC),” said Sonora Quest Laboratories Sales & Account Services Director Nathan Mendenhall. “Through this arrangement, patients with STAT laboratory orders from their healthcare provider can visit Sonora Quest Laboratories’ local patient service center or any of our in-office phlebotomists for collection right here in Flagstaff. In most cases, healthcare providers can expect to receive these results within four hours of delivery to the laboratory at FMC,” Mendenhall added.
Patients can still get their blood drawn either at their doctor’s office or a Sonora Quest Laboratories patient service center, for rapid and urgent testing, and once collected, the specimens will be processed accordingly through FMC. This collaborative approach will provide health care providers in our community with the timely information needed to care for their patients while minimizing cost and enhancing convenience for patients.