Laboratory/Blood Testing Centers
Essex, CT
Lab/Blood Testing Centers
Essex, CT
Accredited Drug Testing in Essex, Connecticut provides confidential laboratory analyzed testing services at our Essex, CT testing locations for medical and personal testing purposes for health, prevention and early detection of diseases. Patients can directly schedule a laboratory test including blood and urinalysis at multiple laboratory/blood testing centers in Essex, Connecticut and the surrounding areas. Same day service is available and most testing centers in the Essex, CT area are within minutes of your home or office.
192 WESTBROOK RD 2.3 miles
ESSEX, CT 6426
929 Boston Post Road, 4.4 miles
Old Saybrook, CT 6475
324 FLANDERS RD 9.4 miles
EAST LYME, CT 6333
11 Woodland Road, 12.0 miles
Madison, CT 6443
721 Bank Street, 14.8 miles
New London, CT 6320
80 NORWICH NEW LONDON TPKE STE A 15.4 miles
UNCASVILLE, CT 6382
163 BROADWAY ST 15.8 miles
COLCHESTER, CT 6415
534 SAYBROOK RD Ste 700 17.6 miles
MIDDLETOWN, CT 6457
400 Saybrook Rd, 18.0 miles
Middletown, CT 6457
220 ROUTE 12 18.1 miles
GROTON, CT 6340
220 ROUTE 12 STE 5 # 358 18.1 miles
GROTON, CT 6340
607 W MAIN ST 18.7 miles
NORWICH, CT 6360
52 HAZELNUT HILL RD 18.8 miles
GROTON, CT 6340
28 CRESCENT ST 19.3 miles
MIDDLETOWN, CT 6457
118 New London Turnpike, 20.0 miles
Norwich, CT 6360
10 CONNECTICUT AVE 20.3 miles
NORWICH, CT 6360
12 CASE ST STE 302 20.3 miles
NORWICH, CT 6360
326 WASHINGTON ST 20.5 miles
NORWICH, CT 6360
6 BUSINESS PARK DR 21.4 miles
BRANFORD, CT 6405
900 NORTHRUP RD 21.7 miles
WALLINGFORD, CT 6492
144 North Main Street, 22.5 miles
Branford, CT 6405
1064 E MAIN ST STE 301 22.9 miles
MERIDEN, CT 6450
84 N MAIN ST 22.9 miles
BRANFORD, CT 6405
15 South Elm Street, 23.1 miles
Wallingford, CT 6492
60 CHURCH ST 23.4 miles
YALESVILLE, CT 6492
780 CHESTNUT HILL RD 24.2 miles
GLASTONBURY, CT 6033
816 Broad Street, Ste 22, 24.3 miles
Meriden, CT 6450
400 W MAIN ST 24.5 miles
BRANFORD, CT 6405
1111 CROMWELL AVE BLDG 4 STE 403 24.9 miles
ROCKY HILL, CT 6067
Testing services include physician referral, collection of the specimen, complete laboratory analysis and confidential and secure result reporting.
Common Lab/Blood Tests Performed in Essex, CT Include:
- Lipid/Cholesterol Test
- STD Testing
- Diabetes Testing
- Thyroid Testing
- Hemoglobin A1C Testing
- Complete Blood Count (CBC) Testing
- Hepatitis Testing
- Basic Metabolic Testing
- Liver Function Testing
- Hormone Testing
** Patients who have high insurance deductibles, co-pays or do not have insurance can access important health and wellness testing by scheduling/Ordering a confidential clinical test through Accredited Drug Testing By Phone or On-line.
The process to schedule a lab/blood test in Essex, Connecticut is fast and easy!
Step 1: Schedule/Order your test online at www.accrediteddrugtesting.com/lab-test-order or call our scheduling department at 800-221-4291. You do not need to visit a doctor to order a test.
Step 2: Provide confidential and secure patient information including the type of test, zip code of the location area you would like to take the test, make payment and you will receive a patient registration form by email where you can immediately proceed to the testing center. Same day service is available. Your test registration pass will have the testing location address and hours of operation.
Step 3: After your test has been analyzed by one of our national CLIA and FDA certified laboratories (Quest/ LabCorp) your results will be sent through a confidential, secure and encrypted portal to the email address that you provided. In the event that the test is non-negative, abnormal or other circumstances, a consultation with the referring physician is available.
Blood Testing Essex, Connecticut
A blood test performed in Essex, CT is a laboratory analysis performed on a blood sample that is usually extracted from a vein in the arm using a hypodermic needle, or via fingerprick. Multiple tests for specific blood components, such as a glucose test or a cholesterol test, are often grouped together into one test panel called a blood panel or blood work. Blood tests are often used in health care to determine physiological and biochemical states, such as disease, mineral content, pharmaceutical drug effectiveness, and organ function. Typical clinical blood panels include a basic metabolic panel or a complete blood count. Blood tests are also used in drug tests to detect drug abuse.
A basic metabolic panel measures sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), magnesium, creatinine, glucose, and sometimes calcium. Tests that focus on cholesterol levels can determine LDL and HDL cholesterol levels, as well as triglyceride levels.
Some tests, such as those that measure glucose or a lipid profile, require fasting (or no food consumption) eight to twelve hours prior to the drawing of the blood sample.
For the majority of tests, blood is usually obtained from the patient's vein. Other specialized tests, such as the arterial blood gas test, require blood extracted from an artery. Blood gas analysis of arterial blood is primarily used to monitor carbon dioxide and oxygen levels related to pulmonary function, but is also used to measure blood pH and bicarbonate levels for certain metabolic conditions.[While the regular glucose test is taken at a certain point in time, the glucose tolerance test involves repeated testing to determine the rate at which glucose is processed by the body.
Laboratory Testing In Essex, Connecticut
Our laboratory testing locations in Essex, CT provide a wide range of certified laboratory test analysis. Some test results can be affected by certain foods and medications. For this reason, people may be asked to not eat or drink for several hours before a laboratory test or to delay taking medications until after the test.
Common Lab Tests Performed at our Essex, Connecticut Testing Facilities Include:
- Complete Blood Count. This test, also known as a CBC, is the most common blood test performed.
- Prothrombin Time. Also known as PT and Pro Time, this test measures how long it takes blood to clot.
- Basic Metabolic Panel.
- Comprehensive Metabolic Panel.
- Lipid Panel.
- Liver Panel.
- Thyroid Stimulating Hormone.
- Hemoglobin A1C.
All laboratory testing that is performed on humans in the United States (except testing done in clinical trials and other types of human research) is regulated through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), which were passed by Congress in 1988. The CLIA laboratory certification program is administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in conjunction with the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CLIA ensures that laboratory staff are appropriately trained and supervised and that testing laboratories have quality control programs in place so that test results are accurate and reliable.
STD Testing Essex, Connecticut
Our local Essex, Connecticut STD testing centers provide multiple STD tests for individuals who may have been exposed to or showing symptoms of an STD. Millions of Americans have some form of an STD and our testing is provided in a confidential manner. STD tests may be ordered for one specific type of test or you may order a multiple panel test which includes several STD tests. STD stands for Sexually Transmitted Disease, also known as STI or Sexually Transmitted Infection, meaning that these diseases are most often, but not exclusively, spread by sexual intercourse.
STDs are passed from one person to another through sexual activity which can include vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse and/or anal intercourse. Though not as common, STDs can also be transmitted through intimate physical contact such as heavy petting.
STDs do not always cause symptoms, or they may only cause mild symptoms. This makes it very possible to have an infection and not know it. Therefore, if you are sexually active it is important to get tested at least once a year.
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Local Area Info: Essex, Connecticut
Essex is one of the few American towns to ever be attacked by a foreign power; this occurred on April 8, 1814, and the economic losses were among the largest sustained by the United States during the War of 1812. 28 vessels, with a total value estimated to be close to $200,000 (at a time when a very large two story home in Essex, then known as Potapoug Point, would have been worth no more than $1,000), were destroyed by the British. One historian has called it the "Pearl Harbor" of that war.
On that date, approximately 136 British marines and sailors under the command of Richard Coote (or Coot) rowed 6 boats from four British warships (the Hogue, Endymion, Maidstone and Borer) anchored in Long Island Sound, 6 miles up the Connecticut River, past the unmanned fort in Old Saybrook, arriving at the boat launch at the foot of Main Street in Essex close to 4 A.M. The boats were armed with swivel guns loaded with grapeshot, the officers armed with swords and pistols, the marines with "Brown Bess" muskets, and the sailors with torches and axes; they responded to the single cannon fired by the town's surprised defenders with a massive volley, neither side incurring any casualties. They quickly commandeered the town, eliciting a promise of no resistance from the Essex militia in return for promising not to harm the townspeople or burn their homes, while a messenger rode to Fort Trumbull in New London for help. A dubious local myth states that Coote did not burn the town as a favor to a local merchant who greeted him with a secret Masonic handshake.
The British marched to the Bushnell Tavern (now the Griswold Inn), then seized the town's stores of rope (each ship of that time requiring 8 miles of rope) and, according to the April 19, 1814 Hartford Courant, "$100,000 or upwards" worth of rum (acquired from the East Indies in trade for beef and wood from Connecticut).