Overview
Indiana University Health Bloomington
Laboratory Mission
Indiana University Health Bloomington
Laboratory
The IU Health Bloomington Laboratory exists to provide
accurate and timely test information for the enhancement of
patient care.
The IU Health Bloomington Laboratory provides
comprehensive, integrated inpatient and outpatient laboratory
services for South Central Indiana. The IU Health Bloomington
Laboratory maintains a central comprehensive College of
American Pathologists (CAP) and The Joint Commission (TJC)accredited laboratory located within IU Health Bloomington.
The IU Health Bloomington Laboratory operates 24 hours a day
throughout the year and provides STAT, rapid-turnaround, and
routine anatomic and clinical pathology testing to support
inpatient and outpatient operating rooms (general surgery,
obstetrics, gynecologic oncology, orthopedic surgery,
neurosurgery), intensive care units, coronary care unit, hospital
wards [including obstetrics, pediatrics, medicine, and surgery],
chemotherapy infusion clinic, and emergency center. The IU
Health Bloomington Laboratory also provides an extensive
Point-Of-Care Testing Program for IU Health Bloomington
(blood gases, electrolytes, activated clotting times, and bedside
glucose monitoring).
Indiana University Bloomington Laboratory
Vision
We will establish IU Health Bloomington Laboratory as the
provider of choice for laboratory services in South Central
Indiana.
We will accomplish our vision by:
• Making the IU Health Bloomington Laboratory a place
where all patients are treated with kindness and respect
while receiving exceptional care
• Nurturing employees as individuals, professionals, and
team members
• Enabling and empowering employees through
continuous improvement techniques
• Continuously striving to surpass our own high
professional standards
• Acquiring technology and refining processes that meet
or exceed the standards for the laboratory industry
• Expanding and improving our reference laboratory
services
• Exercising initiative and motivation in responding to the
needs and expectations of those we serve
• Serving as a resource for clinical laboratory information
Indiana University Bloomington Laboratory
Values
Productive
Responsible
Optimistic
Available
Commitment
Together
Initiative
Vigilant
Ethical
Trust
Excellence
Accountability
Mutual respect
Southern Indiana Pathologists, LLP provides on-site medical
directorship and doctoral-level expertise in surgical pathology,
cytology (including fine-needle aspiration and bone marrow
biopsy), hematopathology, microbiology, immunology, blood
banking, and clinical chemistry. This doctoral-level expertise is
available for clinical consultation 24 hours per day. The
pathologists qualify for hospital staff privileges at IU Health
Bloomington (e.g., pathologists must be American Board of
Pathology [ABP]-Board-certified in anatomic and clinical
pathology and must have demonstrated competency/proficiency
in designated specialty areas of pathology). The IU Health
Bloomington Laboratory provides regular conferences for the
medical staff of IU Health Bloomington.
The IU Health Bloomington Laboratory Outreach Program
services the majority of physician offices, clinics, and hospital
customers within Monroe and the surrounding 5 counties.
Outreach specimens are processed concurrently with hospital
inpatient and outpatient specimens; and are tested 24 hours a
day. IU Health Bloomington Laboratory performs 98% of all
tests in house, with esoteric tests sent to IU Health
Bloomington’s medical testing partner Mayo Medical
Laboratories.
All laboratory test results including surgical pathology,
cytology, and reference laboratory test results (via bidirectional interface with Mayo Medical Laboratories) are
reported via the laboratory information system (LIS).