Frequently Asked Questions

Yale Health contracts with Quest Diagnostic Services for lab services. You may have your testing performed at any of their locations in New England, as well as the facility located within the Yale Health Center. When your clinician requests lab tests, an electronic order will be placed with Quest for all lab work.

Click here to schedule your lab appointment online.

Results will be communicated to you by the ordering clinician through the mail, through Yale Health Online (our secure web-based clinician-patient communication tool), or via phone. 

Availability of test results varies with the type of test ordered. Please allow at least five business days for your test results to return and for the ordering clinician to review them.

If you have not heard from us about test results within two weeks, we encourage you to leave a message for your clinician's medical assistant who will coordinate with your primary care clinician to provide you with results.

Availability of test results varies with the type of test ordered. Please allow at least five business days for your test results to return and for the ordering clinician to review them.

If you have not heard from us about test results within two weeks, we encourage you to leave a message for your clinician's medical assistant who will coordinate with your primary care clinician to provide you with results.

You can request a urine pregnancy test in the Ob/Gyn Department or Student Health Monday through Friday during regular business hours. There is a lab in our building for your convenience. You may also go to any Quest Diagnostics laboratory facility in New England once the test has been ordered by the department.

Your confidential results are usually available the following day by 4:30 pm. Please contact your ordering clinician if you need any additional assistance when you get the results of your pregnancy test.

Yes.  All students are covered for laboratory services requested by their primary care clinicians.