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Celebrating Medical Lab Professionals Week: April 21-27

Medical lab professionals posing for a photo

Medical Laboratory Professionals Week is an annual celebration of the pathology and clinical lab professionals who play a vital role in ensuring timely and accurate diagnoses while continuously striving to improve patient outcomes.

Every day, Children’s Minnesota care providers and health care workers are dependent on lab professionals to provide answers and guide treatment for patients. Using state-of-the-art biomedical equipment and complex analysis, these trained lab specialists provide reliable and timely testing results that are pivotal to the diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and prevention of disease for our patients.

Medical lab professionals taking a photo

From routine checkups to emergency diagnostics, Children’s lab professionals work day and night to support your child’s medical team and keep care moving forward.

Celebrate Lab Professionals Week with us by thanking these specialists for all they do!

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