About the Laboratory Patient Services Office (LPSO)
CHEO's laboratory patient services office provides blood work for:
- CHEO inpatients
- CHEO outpatients
- Community patients with exceptions
Please make sure to check our hours of operation below and confirm you are eligible for blood work at CHEO before coming to the lab. CHEO will not accept community patients that do not meet one of the criteria below.
Who can get blood work at CHEO?
- CHEO patients
- CHEO provides blood work for patients as part of their visit to the hospital and for all patients – including adults – in the genetics clinic.
- Community patients under five years old
- All children under five can be referred to CHEO for blood work. A regular blood work requisition from a health care provider is all that’s required.
- Community patients five years of age and older with special medical requirements
- If a child has a special medical need, their physician must complete a Phlebotomy Services Exception Form for them to be seen at CHEO.
- Exceptions include:
- Children or youth with a physical disability and a complex diagnosis.
- Children or youth with behavioural, neurodevelopmental or mental health diagnoses.
- Children or youth with extreme anxiety where specialized venipuncture is required.
- Children or youth referred for phlebotomy by a community sub-specialist.
Phlebotomy Services Exception Form
Please make sure to confirm you are eligible for blood work at CHEO before coming to the lab. CHEO will not accept community patients that do not meet the criteria.
Not sure if your child qualifies for our services? Contact us at 613-737-7600 extension 2691.
We cannot accept
- Community patients that require ova, parasite, swabs or urinalysis testing. Please bring your specimens to a community laboratory instead.
- Community patients under five years old whose requisition has not been fully filled out by the requesting physician.
- Community patients over five years old whose Phlebotomy Services Exception Form hasn’t been fully filled out by the referring physician.
Hours of operation
Laboratory Patient Services Office (blood work) - holiday hours
CHEO's Laboratory Patient Services Office, which provides blood work for CHEO clinic outpatients as well as community patients, will be closed from December 25 to January 1 . During this time, phlebotomy staff will be available to provide laboratory services for CHEO's inpatient units only.
- CHEO patients: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Thursday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday.
- Community patients: 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday
Blood work is by drop-in, no appointment is needed.
We take our last patient for the day 15 minutes before closing time. This helps give patients, families and our clinic staff and medical staff time to complete the blood work.
Virology testing for community outpatients and EORLA sites
Regional Virology Laboratory requisition form
- Community labs may draw the tests requested on CHEO Virology requisitions and refer specimens to CHEO.
- Patients may only come to CHEO for blood work if they meet the criteria listed above.
Genetics testing for community outpatients
- Community labs may draw the tests requested on CHEO Genetics’ requisitions and refer specimens to CHEO.
- Patients may only come to CHEO for blood work if they meet the criteria listed under our services for community outpatient.
Lab licensing
About the EORLA laboratory
The EORLA lab offers testing for biochemistry, electron microscopy, hematology, pathology, microbiology, transfusion medicine and virology with a focus on pediatric testing.
For more information about EORLA, visit the EORLA website.