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London Health Sciences Centre surpasses 1-million mark for processing COVID-19 tests
COVID-19 tests since the start of the pandemic just over a year ago.The joint venture between the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PaLM) team at LHSC and St. Joseph’s Health Care London first began COVID-19 lab testing within LHSC’s microbiology program on March 18, 2020.The initiative, which started to help add capacity to the provincial laboratory testing system and support the needs of the southwest region, was able to ramp up capacity and expand partnerships.“As a team, we’re not just proud of the throughput we’ve accomplished, we’re also proud of what that represents,” said Mike Kadour, chief laboratory officer at LHSC.