Laboratory

Rooks County Health Center’s offers a full-service lab with state-of-the-art instrumentation. Providing a broad, in-house menu for routine and stat testing, patient samples are automatically sent from instrument to computer via analyzer interfaces.

Our lab strives to provide a high quality of care to patients in obtaining specimens, giving accurate test results and meeting their needs. Enabling everyday people to stay healthy by monitoring their health, RCH ensures timely test results that help diagnose and treat diseases.

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) certified. Our lab is inspected for compliance every two years by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

Laboratory Services

The types of services our laboratory provides include a wide variety of diagnostic and screening tests to aid in patient evaluation, assessment and treatment. These areas include:

  • Blood Bank
  • Chemistry
  • Coagulation
  • DOT & Non-DOT Drug Screen Collections (available 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday – Thursday)
  • Hematology
  • Immunochemistry
  • Self-Ordered Testing (Direct Access Testing)
  • Serology
  • Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
  • Urinalysis

Sami Werner, BS, MT, (ASCP)
Lab Manager

Monday – Friday
7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

A staff member is on call 24 hrs. a day, 7 days per week to manage the emergency department.

Phone: 785.688.4420

Fax: 785-434-2137

“We had lab results, a prescription and were out of the hospital in about an hour!”

Affordable Wellness Tests

Monitor your own health with affordable, direct access lab tests from Rooks County Health Center. Confidential, no doctor’s order is required and results direct to you. Convenient, no appointment necessary, walk-ins welcome. Test results are available the same day, often within an hour. Visit with an RCH lab technologist to consider which test(s) best serves your needs.  Click here to learn more.

Patient Care Services

RCH’s lab staff routinely cares for all ages from pediatric to geriatric including inpatients, out-patients, emergency room patients and referrals from out of town doctors.

Additional Information

For more information about tests that have been ordered by your physician, go to www.labtestsonline.org