Comprehensive Services, Qualified Staff

The laboratory at Valley Baptist Medical Center-Brownsville is staffed 24 hours a day with highly skilled phlebotomists, registered medical technologists and medical technicians. Pathologists are also on-site at the hospital on a full-time basis.

The laboratory is divided into several main sections, as follows:

• Chemistry
• Microbiology
• Blood Bank
• Serology
• Hematology
• Urinalysis
• Pathology
• Histology
• Coagulation

Accreditations

The laboratory is continually improving equipment and methodologies in an effort to meet the needs of physicians and patients, delivering results with the highest of quality standards. It is accredited by the following:

• The College of American Pathologists
• H.H.S. – Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1988 (CLIA)
• Medicare
• Medicaid

Community Reference Laboratory (CRL)

In addition to the main hospital laboratory, Valley Baptist also operates a Community Reference Laboratory, a full service reference laboratory for physician offices, hospitals, clinics, and local reference labs. In Brownsville, the station is located in the Valley Baptist Medical Center- Brownsville Professional Building, Suite 320. In Harlingen, we have patient service stations at the Heart Corner, Ambulatory Surgery Center, Lindbergh Plaza-McAllen, Valley Baptist OP, and in the Valley Baptist-Harlingen Medical Arts Pavilion.

We provide courier service, electronic results, and phlebotomy service to our clients. Our advantage over national reference laboratories is that we are a local laboratory, performing over 90% of the tests in one of our local laboratories. Often the integrity of the specimen is compromised in shipping and handling, potentially causing erroneous results. At Valley Baptist, most of the specimens are analyzed in Health System laboratories, thus avoiding these problems.

Contact Us

Valley Baptist Medical Center-Brownsville Main Laboratory:   (956) 698-5467.