For Patients

Blood Drawing Locations & Hours

Blood drawing locations and contact information all YNHH locations.

What Insurance Plans are Accepted

Yale-New Haven Hospital accepts almost all locally active managed care insurance plans.

Why You and Your Doctor Can Trust Our Results

The Yale-New Haven Hospital Department of Laboratory Medicine ensures that every test it offers is accurate and reliable.

What is a Laboratory Medicine Doctor?

When your doctor orders a blood or urine test, or takes a biopsy, all you usually know is that the sample goes to some mysterious place ("the lab" or pathology") and either the same day or a few days later your doctor suddenly has a better idea of what is wrong with you and what to do about it. more...

Our Laboratory Staff

Laboratory professionals are among the unsung heroes of health care, working behind-the-scenes, 24/7, to support the other health care professionals with critical data from your testing.

Apheresis and Adult Stem Cell Clinical Services

The apheresis service is available to carry out complex medical procedures such as exchange transfusion, "harvesting" of peripheral blood stem cells for transplantation, and plasma exchange, as well as blood transfusions. Your doctor will work with our Transfusion Medicine physicians to arrange these services if you need them. more...

In the Community

Science Education Outreach Program

The Department is engaged in a number of community service activities. Prominent among these is the Science Education Outreach Program which utilizes resources from our Department and the Departments of Immunobiology and Genetics. Led by Dr. Paula Kavathas, the program brings improved science education to New Haven middle schools. more...

Yale New Haven Hospital Community Service

The Department is also a major contributant to the YNHH Community Health Fair and other activities that expand health advocacy to our community. more...