Lab
More than 80% of labs drawn are done here in our lab.
Inpatient and outpatient services provided by our lab
Inpatient:
- We offer bedside lab draws from 6:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
- For quick results if it’s an emergency we are able to use the EPOC and ISTAT to quickly do routine testing.
Outpatient:
- We ask that all outpatients coming in go to our front desk to get registered before coming back to the lab
- We offer walk-in lab draws, urine and stool collections, flu, strep, covid and MRSA screenings from 6:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
- We will go out into the BMC parking lot to collect patients in their car if they have trouble getting around.
General Information
- If patients meet the criteria we will go out into the community twice a week to collect them in their homes. ( this service is temporarily stopped due to staffing issues)
- No appointment needed for pre-surgery covid testing as long as the patient’s doctor has ordered it.
- Bucktail offers a patient portal that is available for patients to look at any time to view their tests online.
- Our lab is partnered up with Geisinger and patients can look up their results that we send out.
- If a patient comes without an order we will try our very best to get a hold of their ordering doctor’s office to have them fax us an order so the patient doesn’t have to leave and come back.
- Patients can call us at any time to ask questions and we will answer all questions to the best of our abilities.
Bucktail Medical Center Laboratory Department will be extending its weekday hours to a minimum of 12 hours per day. Saturday morning hours will also be available for those needing lab services during the weekend. The current Laboratory hours are:
MONDAY: 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM
TUESDAY: 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM
WEDNESDAY: 6:00 AM – 8:00 PM
THURSDAY: 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM
FRIDAY: 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM
SATURDAY: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Labs We Perform
Equipment
Beckman-Coulter AU 480 Chemistry Analyzer
Does all of our chemistry testing, located in our main lab.Tosoh AIA 360 Immunochemistry
Does our thyroid and prostate testing, located in our main lab.XNL-Sysmex 430 Hematology Analyzer
Does all of our hematology testing, located in our main lab.Sysmex Pochi-100 point of care Hematology inst.
Does cbc’s in the EDSiemens CA-660 Coagulation Analyzer
Does all our coag testing, located in the main lab for patients on coumadin therapy and for pre-admission testing screen before surgeries.Clinitek Status Urine Analyzer
Does all our urine testing, located in the main lab used to help detect abnormalities in your urine or detect a urinary tract infection.Biosite Triage Meter
Does some cardiac testing, located in the main lab -helps to monitor heart failure and helps to rule out embolism.I-STAT point of care
Does cardiac testing in the ED to rule out a heart attackEPOC point of care
Does arterial blood gasses, lactate and basic chemistries in the ED.Sophia
Does all the flu’s and covid’s in the ED and main lab.Biosite Torch (new instrument)
Does all of our respiratory pathogen panels, located in the main lab.Microscope
We also look into the microscope to see cell in your blood to investigate abnormal findings from our instruments.Meet Our Team
Our team leader is the fabulous Beth Myers who is an expert in her field. Gorgeous on the inside and out. Beth is a Medical Laboratory scientist with a masters degree in Health Science with over 30 years of experience. Beth travels over an hour to get here each day because she can’t get enough of this cute little small town. Beth is a very proud animal lover who currently has 2 guinea pigs and a rescue dog. Beth is an active camper who loves the outdoors. She loves the beach and going on little trips with her family. Beths lovely husband Tim works with us as well in another department. 
Our second in command is the lovely Elizabeth Probst who is our phlebotomist and secretary in the lab. Beth is the current president of our BMC Union. Beth got her degree from Lock Haven University and will hopefully be here for many years to come. Beth is a local resident born and raised here in Renovo. Beth is also an avid animal lover who has 2 cats and a dog at home as well as an amazingly smart little girl. Beth loves traveling and is a bit of a foodie; she’s always snacking on something and planning her next big trip. Beth loves camping and the outdoors as well as hunting and fishing with her family. Positions
Phlebotomist
Medical Laboratory Scientist
Laboratory Manager
ROLE OF PHLEBOTOMIST
Verify the patients name and DOB
Collect the specimen
Process the specimen by centrifuging or letting it sit
Order the tests the doctor has ordered in our EMR system
Collect the labels and match with two identifier before labeling the patients tubes
Run the specimen in the corresponding instrument
For specimens we cannot do in-lab we have to create an orderand package the specimen to send to Geisinger
Finalize patients results and print reports
Fax patients results to ordering doctors offices and wait for the confirmation that they received the results
Wait for the test we sent to Geisinger to come and put with its corresponding order
Fax all doctors orders and results from Geisinger to Medical Records
Bill all Wound cultures, urine cultures, blood cultures and strep back-ups in our EMR system
Quality control
(QC is one of the most important impacts on lab testing, it ensures both precision and accuracy of a patient’s sample)
Supplies
(making sure we never run of test reagents, phlebotomy supplies and buying, leasing or renting proper equipment is very important, we cannot function without any of it)
Compliance
(compliance policies ensure that all claims for testing services submitted to Medicare or other federally funded care programs are accurate and correctly identify the services ordered by the physician and performed by the laboratory. Additionally that all procedures, policy and general approach in a lab to guarantee the analytical results generated are evocative, convincing and appropriate for the decisions which will be made from the data)