Laboratory Services

Laboratory tests provide useful information for the diagnosis and treatment of illness, in fact up to 70% of medical decisions are based on laboratory results. Pender Community Hospital Laboratory is committed to high quality laboratory tests with modern instrumentation and ASCP Certified technologist with coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Pender Community Hospital Lab provides a large test menu and many of these tests are performed in house. Laboratory services include:

• Transfusion services
• Chemistry
• Hematology
• Microbiology
• Coagulation
• Immunology
• Toxicology
• Urinalysis

Tests not performed in-house are sent to Dunes Medical Laboratory, an affiliate of Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City.