Briefs and Bulletins
2025
June 2025 – Courier Vendor Change, effective 8/1/25
June 2025 – Ionized Calcium specimen requirements
June 2025 – C. Difficile testing algorithm updates
April 2025 – Respiratory Order Updates
March 2025 - Measles Testing Guidance
February 2025 - Annual Notice to Healthcare Providers 2025
February 2025 - Reflex Testing to Healthcare Providers 2025
January 2025 - Enterovirus PCR on CSF
January 2025 - Lab Memo - Genetic Testing
January 2025 - Lab Alert - BC Bottle Shortage Update
2024
July, 2024 - Lab Alert - BC Bottle Shortage Update
July, 2024 - Lab Alert - BC Bottle Shortage
May, 2024 - Hepatitis C Reflexive Algorithm Change
April, 2024 - Changes to Iron Panel and Transferrin Orders 2024
February, 2024 - Annual Notice to Healthcare Providers 2024
February, 2024 - Reflex Testing to Healthcare Providers 2024
January, 2024 - Delay in O and P Screen (Cryptosporidium Antigen and Giardia Antigen)
2023
November, 2023 - Reticulocyte Hemoglobin Content (Retic-HGB)
August, 2023 - Hydrocodone Toxicology
June, 2023 - Molecular Vaginal Panel (MVP)
June, 2023 - Chart Format When Using Paper
February, 2023 - Annual Notice to Providers
February, 2023 - Reflex Testing To Providers
2022
November, 2022 - C. Difficile Testing Update
October, 2022 - Rotavirus Testing
July 28, 2022 - Monkey Pox Updated
June, 2022 - COVID-19 Antigen Test
June, 2022 - Viabrio and Yersinia Stool Cultures Discontinued
March, 2022 - DIC Panel Update
February, 2022 - Reflex Testing to Providers 2022
February, 2022 - Annual Notice to Providers 2022
February, 2022 - eGFR Equation Change
2021
November, 2021 - Blood Collection Supply Shortages
September, 2021 - Urinalysis Update
September, 2021 - Cord Blood Gas Order Changes
September, 2021 - Enteric Pathogen Panel
June, 2021 - Light Blue Citrate Shortage
April, 2021 - Group B Strep (GBS)
April, 2021 - Globulin Reference Range Change
April, 2021 - COVID-19/SARS CoV-2 Testing Guidance
March, 2021 - Syphilis Confirmation Change
March, 2021 - Hemoglobin A1c Reference Range Change
February, 2021 - Cryptococcal Antigen
February, 2021 - Cortisol Testing
February 2021 - High Sensitivity (hs) Troponin T Testing
2020
December, 2020 - Transfusion Guidelines for Blood Components
October, 2020 - Glucose Ranges Update
September, 2020 - Change to Add-on Testing
July, 2020 - 4th Generation HIV Testing
July, 2020 - Drug Detection Testing on Umbilical Cord Tissue - Update
July, 2020 - In-house Quantiferon Gold TB Assay
2019
December, 2019 - Gestational Glucose Testing
2018
April 2018 - Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG)
2017
January 2017 - Body Fluid Order Changes