Lab Services

For doctors to diagnose diseases or other conditions, they often require that a child undergo lab work. Laboratory tests may include collecting a blood, urine or tissue sample from your child.

At Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, our laboratory services team is capable of running a wide range of tests to help treat kids in our care. The specialists who perform pediatric lab tests and prepare results are known as phlebotomists, medical technologists and pathologists. The laboratory services team at Children’s is specially trained to work with babies, kids and teens, and our specialists know how to put them at ease.

How do you get a lab test at Children’s?

A majority of the lab tests completed at Children’s require a referral from your child’s doctor; however, all laboratory locations accept walk-ins for lab tests, so an appointment is not required.

What lab tests and procedures does Children’s perform?

• Pediatric blood collection, and pain management for phlebotomy procedures
• General hematology, chemistry, coagulation, immunohematology and urinalysis studies
• Pathology examination
• Pediatric microbiology and rapid molecular testing (respiratory viruses, GI infections)
• Allergy testing using ImmunoCAP methodology
• Age-specific explanation of test results so parents understand what is normal for their child’s age and how that differs from results for adults
• Sweat chloride collection and testing (accredited by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation)
• Flow cytometry and bone marrow examinations
• Perinatal and placental pathology

Led by a professional staff of nationally and internationally recognized scientists and pediatric pathologists, our laboratory services team provides support to the clinical areas of Children's Egleston, Hughes Spalding and Scottish Rite hospitals, ranging from transplant and hematology/oncology to general care, and to the community, such as local pediatricians, through our outpatient services.

Our department of pathology and laboratory medicine is nationally accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and Georgia Department of Community Health.

Laboratory services are overseen by internationally known subspecialty-certified physicians, scientists and pathologists.

Our laboratory services certifications include:

• Egleston Hospital, CAP, Clinical Lab
• Egleston Hospital, Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) Medicaid and Medicare Services, Clinical Lab
• Egleston Hospital, Georgia Department of Community Health
• Scottish Rite Hospital, CAP, Clinical Lab
• Scottish Rite Hospital, CAP, Point of Care
• Scottish Rite Hospital, Georgia Department of Community Health
• Scottish Rite Hospital, CLIA Medicaid and Medicare Services, Clinical Lab
• Georgia Department of Community Health, Clinical Lab Director
• Egleston Hospital, AABB Accreditation
• Scottish Rite Hospital, AABB Accreditation 
• CLIA License for Point of Care Egleston Campus
• CLIA License for Point of Care Scottish Rite Campus
• CAP License for Point of Care Egleston Campus
• CLIA License for Center for Adv. Pediatrics
• CAP License for Center for Adv. Pediatrics

IMPORTANT UPDATE: On Sept. 29, current clinical services at Egleston, including lab, will move to Arthur M. Blank Hospital. To help prepare for the move, walk-in lab services will be closed at Egleston Saturday, Sept. 28 and Sunday, Sept. 29. Please use one of our other locations during this time. Lab services will open at Arthur M. Blank Hospital on Monday, Sept. 30.

Center for Advanced Pediatrics
2174 North Druid Hills Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30329

Children’s at Satellite Boulevard
2660 Satellite Blvd.
Duluth, GA 30096

Children’s at Town Center
625 Big Shanty Road NW
Kennesaw, GA 30144

Children’s at Webb Bridge
3155 North Point Parkway, Building A, Suite 100
Alpharetta, GA 30005

Egleston Hospital
1405 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30322

Scottish Rite Hospital
1001 Johnson Ferry Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30342

IMPORTANT UPDATE: With the opening of Arthur M. Blank Hospital on Sept. 29, current clinical services at Egleston, including the Emergency Department, will move to the new hospital. Arthur M. Blank Hospital is located at the corner of I-85 and North Druid Hills Road at 2220 North Druid Hills Road NE in Atlanta. The future of the Egleston campus is still to be determined. Learn more.