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Dear Healthcare Provider, The information contained here may be very important to your practice. Please take a moment to review this document. ARUP Updates to HIV Testing Effective Now In August, ARUP made changes to their HIV genotyping and resistance testing menu. Four previously offered tests have been consolidated into one Next Generation Sequencing assay. … Read more

Dear Healthcare Provider, The information contained here may be very important to your practice. Please take a moment to review this document. Malaria Rapid Screen with Smear Confirmation June 2021 Alverno’s Microbiology Department will be expanding our malaria testing options to include a rapid antigen screen with smear confirmation. Initial screening by malaria antigen will … Read more

Dear Healthcare Provider, The information contained here may be very important to your practice. Please take a moment to review this document. COVID-19 IgM Antibody Testing November 10, 2020 Alverno Laboratories will now offer qualitative COVID-19 IgM antibody testing. IgM antibodies are likely to be present in most individuals several days after the onset of … Read more

Dear Healthcare Provider, The information contained here may be very important to your practice. Please take a moment to review this document. Vaginal Panel by PCR Update July 23, 2020 Due to a national reagent shortage, Alverno Laboratories will discontinue performing the Vaginal Panel by PCR. In the interim, please order the Vaginitis DNA Probe … Read more

Dear Healthcare Provider, The information contained here may be very important to your practice. Please take a moment to review this document. COVID-19 TESTING UPDATE Alverno Laboratories will now offer qualitative COVID-19 IgG antibody testing performed by ARUP Laboratories. IgG antibodies are likely to be present in most individuals approximately two weeks after the onset … Read more

mportant COVID-19 Information Alverno Laboratories will begin sending Coronavirus (COVID-19) samples to LabCorp for physicians that would like to request Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing on their patients as an alternative to sending to the State Laboratories. Alverno is working to bring Coronavirus testing in-house so we can offer faster turnaround for our patients. On March … Read more

Dear Healthcare Provider, The information contained here may be very important to your practice. Please take a moment to review this document. DRUG SCREEN PANEL UPDATES February, 2020 Alverno Laboratories is pleased to announce an update to and consolidation of our Drug of Abuse screening panels. The new panels will be offered with or without confirmation. … Read more

Dear Healthcare Provider, The information contained here may be very important to your practice. Please take a moment to review this document. Anti-Mullerian Hormone December 17, 2019 Alverno Laboratories will now offer Anti-Mullerian Hormone testing in-house for a faster turnaround time. Clinical Use Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) levels decrease throughout a woman’s reproductive life and correlate to … Read more

Dear Healthcare Provider, The information contained here may be very important to your practice. Please take a moment to review this document. LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT TESTING September 5, 2019 If you order Lupus Anticoagulant testing, please read the information regarding changes listed on page 2. LEAD CRITICAL VALUES UPDATE September 18, 2019 In accordance with CDC guidelines, … Read more

Utilization Guides Prostate Health Index (PHI) September 4, 2019 To kick off Prostate Health month, Alverno Laboratories is pleased to announce that the prostate health index (phi) calculation in conjunction with the %free PSA to provide a more specific indicator for prostate cancer detection. The higher specificity of phi means greater probability of identifying those … Read more