Laboratory Services

Regional Lab Outreach (RLO) provides you with accurate, timely, and cost effective lab services. RLO has several convenient locations to provide outpatient laboratory services. Patient service representatives take you through the registration and specimen collection process, always respecting your confidentiality and concerns.

Six RLO service centers are located in a three-county area:

• Medical Services Building (Located behind ARMC on King Avenue)
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  201 Talmadge Drive, Athens
  Hours: 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday; 7 a.m.-12 noon Saturday
• Resource Medical Office Park
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  1500 Oglethorpe Avenue, Suite 3700, Athens
  Hours: 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday
• Oglethorpe Avenue Service Center
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  610 Oglethorpe Avenue, Suite B, Athens
  Hours: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday-Friday
• Medical Specialty Office Park
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  3320 Old Jefferson Rd, Bldg. 200 Ste C, Athens
  Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday; closed for lunch 1-2 p.m.
• Watkinsville Service Center
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  Windridge Office Park
  1618 Mars Hill Rd, Suite C, Watkinsville
  Hours: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday-Friday
• Jefferson Medical Service Center
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  528 Panther Drive, Jefferson
  Hours: 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday-Friday

Critical or emergent outpatient labwork needed when Regional Lab Outpatient Service Centers are closed will be handled through ARMC's Emergency Department.

For more information about our hours, location or services provided, please call (706) 475-6881 or, toll-free, (866) 475-6881. We're doing everything we can to make your lab experiences positive ones.

MISSION STATEMENT: The Clinical Laboratory Services at Athens Regional are dedicated to furnishing a comprehensive, timely, and complete scope of services. Providing a focus on the availability of information, the Laboratory seeks to give its customers pertinent data for the diagnosis, monitoring, and intervention in patient care. The Laboratory seeks to maximize efficiency and cost-effectiveness throughout the entire testing process from receipt of a request to the final report. Practicing a continuous improvement philosophy, the Laboratory will constantly review clinical processes, financial data, and information services, striving for improvement whenever possible. While constantly maintaining an awareness of the patient that is the final result of our endeavor, the Clinical Laboratory upholds to process each individual sample in a confidential, professional, and conscientious manner.

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