Laboratory

Kern Valley Healthcare District Laboratory is a state of the art facility providing clinical laboratory services to inpatients and outpatients in the Kern Valley area. Our laboratory is under the directorship of Dr. Bruce Swinyer, who is board certified in Anatomical and Clinical Pathology. From the beginning, we have had a clear vision of what we must do to provide the medical community with laboratory services of the highest quality. Our vision is guided by our total quality commitment to offering our clients quick and accurate results.

Our laboratory is licensed by the State of California, and certified by CLIA. We do extensive proficiency testing in each department of the laboratory through API. In addition to the licensures and extensive external quality assurance programs, our internal team monitors the quality of each department daily. Our goal is to meet the needs of the clients that we service.

Kern Valley Healthcare District is pleased to propose the following outline of services provided by our laboratory. We are confident that with our ongoing commitment to Total Quality, our extensive services, and our adherence to the many different needs of our varied clients, that Kern Valley Healthcare District Laboratory is, and will continue to provide excellent service.

Testing Capability

Kern Valley Healthcare District Laboratory offers a wide range of testing capability from routine chemistry to esoteric procedures. We currently perform over 400 individual assays at our laboratory. Following is a partial list of the tests that we perform in each department.

Chemistry	Serology
Drugs of Abuse Panel	*RPR
Therapeutic Drugs	Rubella
General Chemistry	Serum and Urine Pregnancy Testing
Quantitative Beta HCG	Mono
	Rapid Group A Strep
Hematology	Rheumatoid
CBC
Sed Rate	Microbiology
Reticulocyte	Culture and Sensitivity (aerobic & anaerobic)
Body Fluid Analysis	Chlamydia Screen
Special Staining for Slides	*Vaginal/Cervical Group B Strep
	Rapid Group A Strep Screen
Coagulation	Campylobacter
PT	*C-difficile
APTT	Blood Culture work-up
Bleeding Time	Gram Stain
Fibrinogen	WBC for Stool
Fibrin Split Products	*Ova and Parasite Screen
Urinalysis	*Pathology
Urinalysis	GYN and Non-GYN Cytology
Reducing Substances	Special Histochemistry
	Surgical Pathology
Blood Bank	Bone Marrow Procedures and Interpretation
Type and Screen	Dermato Pathology
Direct and Indirect Coombs
Crossmatch
Autologous and Indirect Blood
Rhogam
Plasma, Platelets, Cryoprecipitate, and  other blood byproducts
Washed or Irradiated Cells
Antibody Identification

These are just a few of the tests done in-house (*sent to our Reference laboratory with a 24 hour turnaround time), for any tests that need to be referred to a Reference Laboratory, we utilize Quest Diagnostics Laboratories.