London Laboratory Services Group Affiliates

	London Laboratory Services Group

	A Joint Venture of London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph's Health Care London

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Medical Laboratory Technology

Never before has health care in Canada faced such change. While advances in medical technology are unprecedented, the health care community is finding it increasingly challenging to deliver the quality and level of health care Canadians have traditionally received.

Medical laboratory staff are helping to fulfill this need as crucial and integral members of your health care team. We accomplish this by drawing on knowledge of a variety of technologies and a unique set of skills acquired from extensive training and on-going education.

Whether identifying blood types for transfusion or rare strains of bacteria; detecting abnormal changes in blood and tissue cells or the complications of AIDS; using DNA technology to probe changes of the molecular level or other leading edge technologies; there are increasing demands on medical laboratory professionals.

The Secrets of Your Health

We are on the front lines working with you and your physician to discover the secrets of your health from your laboratory tests.

We meet uncompromising standards in order to be qualified to perform complex testing and provide crucial interpretive and analytical skills to produce diagnostic information about your health.

A Constantly Changing Profession

Our profession continues to experience rapid changes. Sophisticated technologies, combined with constantly changing disease patterns,

challenge us to continually upgrade our education and skills in order to help provide the most efficient and professional level of laboratory testing.

There are now many new techniques and approaches that make it possible to detect and analyze at speeds and accuracy unimagined just a few years ago. Increasingly, our profession is moving out of the laboratory, to the patient's bedside and even into the home.

Evolving Technology for Changing Needs

Recent developments in molecular biology are providing new tools for the identification of many diseases.

Evolving diseases, such as the emergence of drug resistant bacteria, provide new challenges for our profession and heighten the important contribution we make to the health care team.

Knowing the right test to request is as important as performing the test right. Medical laboratory staff are working closely with key members of the health care team to determine the most appropriate tests to be performed. This ensures quality care at an affordable cost.



Revised: July 7, 2008