Washington-based labs providing molecular COVID-19 testing

Washington State Health Care Authority sent this bulletin at 07/13/2020 02:59 PM PDT

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Washington labs providing molecular COVID-19 testing

The Health Care Authority is sending you this alert on behalf of our partners at the Washington State Department of Health.

We recently became aware of significant delays in obtaining COVID-19 test results from some of the large commercial labs. This is very concerning because obtaining test results quickly is critical for informing our contact tracing efforts and containing the spread of the virus.

Below is a list of Washington-based labs that have confirmed their willingness to provide molecular COVID-19 testing to hospitals and clinics. In most cases, our in-state laboratories can process specimens and return results more rapidly than out-of-state labs. We strongly encourage you to use our in-state labs for COVID-19 testing so that we can shorten the turn-around time for test results. Furthermore, it would be useful for providers to identify multiple laboratory testing options so that COVID-19 specimens can be redirected to other labs in the state when necessary to ensure rapid results for patients.

Please feel free to reach out to these labs to discuss.

Lab	Address	City	Contact	Email	Phone
Northwest Pathology & Northwest Laboratory	3614 Meridian St Ste 100	Bellingham	Jenny Bull	jennifer.bull@northwestpathology.com	360.734.2800
Molecular Testing Labs	14401 SE 1st St	Vancouver	Adam Blackwell	adam@moleculartestinglabs.com	360-693-8850
UW Lab Medicine Virology (UW) MOLECULAR	1616 Eastlake Ave E Ste 320	Seattle	Alex Greninger	agrening@uw.edu (gregor@uw.edu)	206-685-6656
Atlas Genomics LLC	2296 W Commodore Way Ste 220	Seattle	Kyndra Capell	kyndracapell@atlas-genomics.com	888-618-6107
Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences	2211 Elliott Avenue, Suite 410	Seattle	Matthew E Hartman	mehartma@altius.org = director but jstam@altius is contact	206-267-1091
Molecular Epidemiology Inc	15300 Bothell Way NE	Lake Forest Park	Hemantha Kulasekara	hemantha.kulasekara@iehinc.com	206-522-5432
Fida Labs	2296 W Commodore Way Ste 220	Seattle	Quinne Feng, Ph.D	quinne.feng@fidalabus.com	206-708-4221
InCyte Diagnostics	13103 E Mansfield Ave	Spokane	Cathryn Hummel	chummel@incdx.com	425-998-5561

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