Health care facilities in small communities in New Mexico and surrounding states have an ongoing need for pathology and laboratory medicine services. However, laboratories at such facilities often do not have enough work to support a full-time, on-site pathologist or technical consultant. To improve access to laboratory medicine expertise, the UNM Department of Pathology has developed a laboratory outreach program that provides pathology resources and services for these laboratories. Pathologists and Medical Laboratory Science faculty, representing all the major laboratory medicine disciplines, provide the staffing for this service. The UNM Department of Pathology Clinical Laboratory Outreach Service significantly contributes to the UNM Health Sciences Center's UNM 2040, a strategic plan to partner with communities to improve health and health equity throughout New Mexico.
A menu of customizable services includes:
