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Laboratory Services
Community Hospital Laboratory is dedicated to providing timely, high-quality results, and unparalleled customer service. Our Laboratory Services offers 24-hour draws, professional consultation, courier service of results, and automated reporting processes through Quality Health Network and Meditech Patient Care Inquiry.

Our professional staff of board-certified pathologists, technologists, histotechnicians, and patient support personnel are highly trained and dedicated to putting the patient first.

Community Hospital offers comprehensive laboratory services including routine and STAT testing. We provide a broad range of tests using advanced instrumentation and technically proven methodologies that delivers rapid and accurate laboratory results.

For those tests not performed on site, Community Hospital uses the Mayo Medical Laboratory in Rochester, Minnesota, as our primary reference lab. To find out more about our laboratory services, download this brochure.

We have been serving health care providers and their patients in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah for more than 60 years. We offer excellent clinical consultations and assistance in problem solving. Call our office at (970)256-6460.
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Lab Services
Anatomic Pathology:
  1. Cytopathology, including ThinPrep® technology

  2. Fine-needle aspiration biopsies and procurement of some superficial lesions

  3. The renovation of the Main Patient Entrance and Laboratory

  4. Histology

  5. Immunochemistry techniques

  6. Surgical pathology

  7. Frozen section analysis for immediate diagnostic information to surgeons

Hematology:
  1. Peripheral blood and bone marrow studies

  2. Diagnostic and therapeutic monitoring of blood disorders

Coagulation:
  1. Wide range of hemostatic testing

  2. Testing for hereditary bleeding and thrombotic disorders

Clinical Chemistry, Urinalysis and Immunoassay:
  1. Extensive repertoire of chemical analyte quantification through state-of-the-art instrumentation

Microbiology:
  1. Extensive range of organism identification and susceptibility testing

  2. Expert consultants in areas of bacteriology, mycology, mycobacteriology, parasitology,
    and virology

  3. Nucleic acid testing (polymerase chain reaction)
Laboratory Services Directory
Administrative Director
Tom Kowalsky
 (970) 256-6320
fax (970) 256-6512

Pathologists
Pathologist's Profiles

Pathology Office
(970) 256-6463

Billing Office
(970) 256-8443
fax (970) 6512

Dean Havlik, MD
Laboratory Medical Director
(970) 256-6463

Robert Kurtzman, DO
 (970) 256-6463

Tara Marshall, MD
(970) 256-6463

Laboratory Departments
Cytology, Microbiology and
Specimen Processing
(970) 256-6460
Laboratory Draw Stations
Community Hospital Main Laboratory
2021 N. 12th St.
Grand Junction, CO 81502
Hours: 7 days a week, 24 hours a day
(970) 256-6460

Community Medical Plaza, Suite D
1060 Orchard Ave.
Grand Junction, CO 81501
Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday