We’re excited to show off our brand-new pathology laboratory at Griffith Hospital, which opened on 25 June. It is part of the $250 million Griffith Base Hospital redevelopment and features the latest technology, including brand-new chemical pathology analysers, and the latest CellarVision digital morphology scanners.

Lab Man­ag­er, Jodie Landy said the team has worked incred­i­bly hard over many months and is look­ing for­ward to work­ing in the spa­cious new lab (not so much look­ing for­ward to unpack­ing all the boxes!).

“We increased the lab’s oper­at­ing hours to 24/7 in Novem­ber 2024, which was in response to increas­ing demand, par­tic­u­lar­ly for out of hours, to ensure we were meet­ing the needs of the com­mu­ni­ty when the new hos­pi­tal opened,” she said.

“We have a love­ly new col­lec­tions space in the out­pa­tients clin­ic and the new lab is spa­cious and filled with lots of nat­ur­al light.

“The hos­pi­tal fea­tures a pneu­mat­ic tube sys­tem link­ing the hos­pi­tal to pathol­o­gy and phar­ma­cy. This new fea­ture will allow for spe­cif­ic spec­i­mens to be rapid­ly trans­port­ed from wards safe­ly and effi­cient­ly, free­ing up staff to spend more time car­ing for patients,” said Jodie.

The Grif­fith lab per­forms more than 349,000 pathol­o­gy tests each year.

A big thank you to Jodie Landy for lead­ing this rede­vel­op­ment with the sup­port of Dr Jeff Don­lon (for­mer Local Pathol­o­gy Direc­tor), Senior Oper­a­tions Man­ag­er Antho­ny Flaskas, and the entire Grif­fith team.

Our Plan­ning team has also been there every step of the way – Geoff Chan­nells was involved in the design and Pankaj Gaur sup­port­ed the lab­o­ra­to­ry decant and was on-site to help with all the logis­tics dur­ing the move.  Great team effort!We can’t wait to care for you in this incred­i­ble new space.

New Grif­fith Base Hos­pi­tal col­lec­tions service

Our out­pa­tient pathol­o­gy col­lec­tion ser­vices is now on the ground floor in the Out­pa­tients Clin­ic (Ambu­la­to­ry Care) at the new Grif­fith Base Hos­pi­tal in Noore­bar Ave.

Our open­ing hours and con­tact details are Mon­day to Fri­day, 7:30am – 5pm.

Closed Sat­ur­day, Sun­day and pub­lic holidays.

Phone: 02 6969 5728 and Fax: 02 6969 5724.

We also have two oth­er local pathol­o­gy col­lec­tion ser­vices in Griffith.

Grif­fith CBD 

1/20 Ban­na Ave Griffith

Phone: 6969 5728

Open­ing hours: Mon­day to Fri­day 7.30 – 2pm

Grif­fith Abo­rig­i­nal Med­ical Centre 

38–42 Jondaryan Ave Griffiths

Phone: 02 6962 000

Open­ing hours: 8am – 1pm Mon­day to Friday.

NSW Health Pathol­o­gy bulk bills and walk-ins are wel­come. Please bring your pathol­o­gy refer­ral and your Medicare card when you vis­it us.

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