IRL: ADVANCED LAB SERVICES

If you are an M.D. or healthcare provider, you could find the following Laboratory Services information very helpful to your practice

About IRL

Integrated Regional Laboratories (IRL) is the most advanced automated laboratory in the state of Florida, providing doctors and hospitals with real-time results on a full menu of tests, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. IRL is a fully integrated regional laboratory supporting the clinical laboratory testing needs of the South Florida market in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, St. Lucie, Indian River and Okeechobee counties. As a community-based laboratory, IRL not only performs testing on behalf of our HCA affiliated hospitals, but also provides the identical high quality testing and service levels for the outpatient communities it serves.

IRL is focused on the customer, listening to his or her issues and challenges, and finally meeting those challenges with services unmatched in quality. IRL’s continued response to changes in technology, offer our clients the cutting-edge diagnostic information they need.

IRL’s capabilities include:

• 24/7 laboratory hours of operation
  
• A network of convenient Patient Service Centers that support your specimen collection needs in Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast
  
• Couriers are dispatched 24 hours a day, seven days a week to pick up samples for timely transportation to our testing facilities
  
• Competitive pricing
  
• IRL has a highly automated system that greatly eliminates the potential for error, reduces test turnaround time, and allows for easy tracking of specimens through all phases of testing
  
• Highly trained technologists utilize state-of-the-art automated testing equipment to complete laboratory testing analysis
  
• Large test menu to meet your patient care needs:
  o Routine chemistry, hematology, and urinalysis
  o Extensive infectious disease testing
  o Special coagulation testing including factor and inhibitor assays
  o Full service Microbiology testing, including virology, mycology, bacteriology, and mycobacteriology and more
  
• IRL’s Client Services department works around the clock to respond to client inquiries and provide rapid notification of critical test results
  
• Full-time medical director on site available during normal working hours and is on call seven days a week for consultation.