Cadence HealthLab - Virtual Tour
Located in Winfield, Illinois, HealthLab is a full-service pathologist-directed clinical laboratory that is dedicated to improving the health of our communities by serving your need for high-quality testing services.
Introduction to Healthlab
Welcome to HealthLab, where our philosophy is reflected in our name and our results show that the difference is in the details. Located in Winfield, Illinois, HealthLab is a full-service pathologist-directed clinical laboratory that is dedicated to improving the health of our communities by serving your need for high-quality testing services.
We combine more than 25 years of laboratory experience with advanced technology to provide comprehensive analysis and general health screenings.
Client Services
At HealthLab, we provide extensive support so our services can become an integral part of your practice or business. This support includes our client services team, which fields more than 500 calls each day, helping clients with topics ranging from proper completion of test requisitions to supply order formats and much more.
Support Services
At HealthLab, we believe dedicated support is key to delivering quality results. We understand that medical professionals depend on precision and efficiency in order to determine diagnoses and best treatments for their patients.
That’s why our advanced clinical laboratory offers 24/7 services for routine and complex lab analyses. In order to ensure these services can become an integral part of your practice or business, we provide extensive general, consultative, educational and technical support.
Courier Services
With a team of more than 50, our courier services are provided to all HealthLab clients and feature routes that stretch throughout Illinois and into northwestern Indiana. Most supplies necessary for specimen collections are provided to clients by HealthLab and may be obtained by completing a supply requisition form and forwarding it to the supply department via courier, fax or email.
Computer Services
Our information technology department combines industry-standard and leading-edge system platforms to provide the best tools for our clients. This includes integrated web-based order entry and result inquiry systems such as Atlas LabWorks, which helps clients with a paperless approach that results in a reduction in turnaround time and increases accuracy.
Process of a Test Specimen
At HealthLab, we’re always striving to fulfill our clients’ needs. Each day, we process nearly 15,000 test samples, verifying each order electronically through bar code scanning.
Inside our laboratory, we use the latest advanced technologies to perform both routine and complex analysis of tissue samples, blood, urine and other bodily fluids. No matter the task, our focus is on both accuracy and timeliness for our clients.
Among our accreditations are those from the College of American Pathologists and the American Association of Blood Banks. We take pride in striving to exceed accreditation standards through our own in-house quality control programs. The difference truly is in the details.
Cytology
Our cytology department performs 130,000 pap smears and 4,000 hospital cytology cases per year.
Chemistry
Our highly accurate Roche instrumentation includes 18 chemistry and immunochemistry analyzers connected to full sample automation, which allows for better sample management and increased accuracy.
Blood Bank
The experienced medical technologists at our blood bank perform more than 2,000 types and screens per month. We also partner with Heartland Blood Centers -- a highly respected independent not-for-profit blood donation center that serves northern Illinois and northwest Indiana -- in order to provide the highest quality inpatient and outpatient transfusion services.
Immunocap
Used for IgE specific allergen testing, this instrument allows physicians to diagnose and manage treatment of patient allergies with a simple blood sample.
Roche Equipment
Our chemistry services are among the nation's best thanks to our new Roche instrumentation, which is one of the largest installations of its kind in the United States. This highly accurate chemistry lab solution includes two pre-analytic and four analytic lines, each capable of 6,000 tests per hour, as well as barcode tracking technologies and fully automated quality control, processing, analysis and results delivery.
Hematology
Inside HealthLab, our hematology solutions are powered by equipment from Sysmex, a company with a worldwide reputation for quality and reliability with whole blood analytics.
Sysmex Equipment
Our hematology solutions are powered by equipment from Sysmex, a company with a worldwide reputation of manufacturing quality testing devices known for their reliability with whole blood analytics with state-of-the-art peripheral blood diagnostics. This department also incorporates both routine and special coagulation studies as well as complete urinalysis studies, which are performed on the IRIS IQ200. This instrument performs digital imaging of urine sediment, allowing for the verification of identified cellular components.
Microbiology
We also offer a full-service microbiology laboratory that includes areas of expertise in bacteriology, parasitology, mycology and mycobacteriology. Additionally, our molecular diagnostics includes testing for MRSA, C. difficile, HPV, chlamydia and gonorrhea, while our immunology lab performs tests for infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases.
Molecular
As part of our full-service microbiology lab, our molecular diagnostics includes testing for a variety of illnesses, including MRSA, C. difficile, HPV, chlamydia and gonorrhea.
Pathology/Histology
Among our busiest areas inside HealthLab is our pathology and histology department, where we perform surgical pathology gross and microscopic examinations on 32,000 surgical cases per year.
The team is bolstered by the expertise of seven board-certified pathologists on the medical staff of Central DuPage Hospital. The physicians involved in this program are neither agents nor employees of Central DuPage Hospital or any of its affiliate organizations, including HealthLab. These physicians have selected our facilities as the place where they want to treat and care for their private patients.
To get answers to your own questions about HealthLab and learn how you can begin making our services part of your business or practice, please contact us today.
