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Laboratory centers and testing: Diagnostic testing is considered essential to patient care. It allows physicians to detect disease earlier, to make diagnoses, and prescribe correct therapies. It also enables them to monitor the results of treatment and the state of patient recovery. For routine lab tests like CBC, or even technologically advanced tests for detecting genetic anomalies, Quest Diagnostics laboratory centers have a comprehensive laboratory-testing menu. The usual clients are consumers and patients, hospitals, physicians, health insurers, government agencies and employers. Through regional laboratory facilities and the Nichols Institute, Quest Diagnostics laboratory centers provide rapid testing and diagnosis tools. Patients can conveniently access any of specimen collection sites with almost 2,000 Patient Service Centers at various locations throughout the United States. There are approximately 150 rapid response laboratories, and above 30 regional laboratories and esoteric testing laboratories on both coasts. It also has laboratory operations in the United Kingdom, México, and Puerto Rico.

Tests Available at the Clinic: In order to provide better diagnostic and healthcare tools, Quest Diagnostics clinic offers Genetics / Heritable Diseases monitoring, such as Spectral Karyotyping, Maternal screening for birth defects and evaluation for inherited disorders. Oncologic and Hematologic Disorders testing like laboratory tests for cancers of the breast, ovary, prostate, thyroid, as well as leukemia and lymphoma. Cardiovascular Disease testing with older tests such as cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL and LDL as well as newer tests like Homocysteine, Cardio CRP and LDL Subparticles, which have been developed by the Nichols Institute. Endocrine System Disorders testing such as thyroid test, and testing for diabetes, bone disorders such as osteoporosis, infertility, pituitary disease, growth disorders. Infectious diseases screening like HIV, Hepatitis, and Influenza testing and toxicology including drugs of abuse testing and therapeutic drug monitoring are also conducted.

Other information: Located in over twenty-two American states, Quest Diagnostics Inc has the nation's largest network of specimen collection sites with almost 2,000 Patient Service Centers. Also, they have a system of clinical trials. Quest Diagnostics Clinical Trials provide central laboratory services for clinical trials through facilities in Europe and North America as well as Australia and South Africa. Aided by a single worldwide database, Quest Diagnostics Clinical Trials has a variety of customized services, for specific requirements. Stringent QA control ensures that results from their laboratories, all over the world, are consistent and accurate. As a leading clinical laboratory, Quest Diagnostics Clinical Trials make optimum use of new technology and use exclusive methods in their testing process. It provides employment to the largest medical and scientific staff in the industry, with approximately 400 MD.'s and Ph.D.'s around the country. Quest supervises a nationwide network of over 2,000 patient service centers, around 155 smaller "rapid response" laboratories principal laboratories situated in more than 30 major metropolitan areas, Quest offers full esoteric testing services, including gene-based testing, on both coasts through its Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute facilities, situated in San Juan Capistrano, Chantilly and, California Virginia. Quest also has laboratory facilities in Mexico City, Mexico, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Heston, England.