Moving a resident out of a community for a blood draw is a bigger operation than it sounds. Transport has to be arranged. Someone may need to go along. A resident with dementia may be unsettled for the rest of the day by the trip itself, long after the draw is forgotten.
Collecting on site removes all of that. The resident stays in their own room, in their own routine.
What it looks like in practice
- Routine draws scheduled around the community's day rather than against it.
- On-call testing when something changes and nobody wants to wait until next week.
- Respiratory testing — including COVID, flu and RSV collection — without moving a resident who may be contagious through a shared building.
- Advanced PCR collection, including for residents who cannot provide a clean-catch specimen.
For families
You do not have to be the one who coordinates it, and you do not have to take a morning off to drive. If you are the family member who ends up managing everything medical from another state, this is one thing that can come off your list.
For community staff
We work with the ordering practitioner directly and follow through until they have what they need. The results go where they are supposed to go. That follow-through is tracked deliberately rather than left to memory, because a result that came back and then sat somewhere is the same as no result at all.
Lab Ladies is nurse-owned, with an experienced laboratory supervisor and more than thirty years of geriatric nursing behind it. The people who show up understand both halves of the job.