Laboratory Services
Thank you for choosing St. Tammany Parish Hospital for your laboratory needs. Our laboratory is staffed with board certified pathologists, licensed medical laboratory scientists, and experienced phlebotomists to serve your needs seven days a week, 24 hours a day. We are accredited by the Joint Commission and the American Association of Blood Banks.
WHERE THE SCIENCE HAPPENS.
Our full-service medical lab team has the answers you’re looking for.
If a hospital has a nerve center, it would be its lab. After all, without testing, medical diagnoses would be little more than best guesses.
With St. Tammany Health System’s accredited, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities, Northshore residents can have confidence in our full-service lab testing services, whether they’re an inpatient at our Covington hospital or an outpatient at one of our myriad satellite facilities.
Our in-house lab at St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington (1202 S. Tyler St., Covington | 985-898-4417), which operates 24 hours a day and seven days a week, is accredited by the Joint Commission, the American Association of Blood Banks, and the College of American Pathologists, and it is staffed with board-certified pathologists, licensed medical laboratory scientists and experienced phlebotomists who together perform approximately 3 million tests per year.
Our Mandeville Diagnostic Center (201 St. Ann Drive, Ste. A, Mandeville | 985-612-2110), located next to our St. Tammany Physicians Network primary care clinic in Mandeville, is open from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday to handle a range of outpatient lab testing, imaging services, and more.
And our Paul D. Cordes Outpatient Pavilion (16300 Highway 1085, Covington | 985-871-6080) also offers full lab testing and imaging services Mondays through Saturdays (7 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays; 7 to 11 a.m. on Saturday), as well as a range of specialty services Mondays through Fridays only. They include:
Find our other outpatient testing locations here.
(Care providers: Click for an outpatient lab order form)
Have questions?
As a patient, you have the right to contact any of the resources below if you perceive that the laboratory has not adequately resolved your concerns:
- Joint Commission’s Office of Quality Monitoring, 1-800-944-6610 or www.jointcommission.org.
- Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Central Office, Division of Laboratory Services (CLIA), 1-877-267-2323 extension 6351 or click here.
- American Association of Blood Banks, 1-301-215-6492 or accreditation@aabb.org.