Frequently Asked Questions
How do I arrange to use Yale Pathology Services?
To initiate our diagnostic services, please contact Courtney Trotta or Frank Mennone (at the contact numbers above), or download the service setup sheet, fill it in and fax it back to us at (203) 737-4301
What insurers cover Yale Pathology Services?
list of managed care health plans with which we participate.
How do I get supplies?
For the initial setup, Courtney Trotta or Frank Mennone will arrange for you to receive the supplies you require according to your diagnostic needs, including requisition forms, specimen bags, biopsy containers, and slide folders. Once you have started using our service, you will be able to fill out a supply request form and simply give it to your courier, who will be able to fill your needs within 24 - 48 hours.
What geographic areas does your courier service cover?
What geographic areas does your courier service cover? Our daily courier service currently covers the southern Connecticut corridor, from Stamford to New London and north to Middletown. For service outside that region, we can provide a scheduled courier service or provide complete U.S. specimen mailing package including mailing cartons, test kits, specimen bags and containers, and labels for easy mailing to Yale Pathology.
Who are the pathologists associated with each specialty at Yale?
Please click here for a list of our pathologists, the programs they are associated with, and their background including their training and years at Yale Pathology.
How do I contact the pathologist in charge of my case?
Please call us toll-free at (877) YALE LAB or (203) 785-2788, and you will be transferred to the pathologist.
As a patient at another hospital, I would like to have my pathology slides sent to Yale Pathology because I have an upcoming appointment at Yale-New Haven Medical Center (or I would like a second opinion). What do I do?
Patients can bring slides themselves during their visit, or have them sent beforehand to the consult desk located in the Surgical Pathology Unit:Surgical Pathology, East Pavilion, 2-631,Yale University School of Medicine,200 South Frontage Road,New Haven,CT 06510
Please make sure that the final report accompanies your slides. Sometimes the institute sending the slides is billable for the consult—at other times it is the patient's responsibility. Please check with your hospital to determine if you may be liable for our diagnostic assessment charge. If so, please provide your name, address, date of birth, and insurance information.
My diagnostic tests were assessed at Yale Pathology Services and my doctor (or I) would like my slides sent to another institution. How do I arrange this?
Contact Mike DeLauro at (203) 737-5720 (or have your doctor’s office do so) who will arrange for your slides and final report to be sent. Please give us a week’s advance notice to assemble your case.
RELAY – Remote Electronic Labs at Yale
Yale Pathology Labs understand the growing emphasis in the healthcare industry on information technology solutions that improve patient care through enhanced efficiency, decreased errors, and effective management of clinicians’ time. With this in mind, Yale Pathology Labs have developed a Web-based software solution, called RELAY, to support our clients. RELAY’s special features are described in this calendar’s month of August. For more information regarding RELAY, please contact either of our representatives: Frank Mennone (203) 785-6848 Courtney Trotta (203) 737-5345
Partnership with Lab Medicine
Yale Pathology Labs’ partnership with the YNHH Department of Laboratory Medicine offers physicians access to comprehensive clinical laboratory services and a full range of routine and specialty testing. The below listing provides an overview of the vast array of testing services offered by our partnership with Laboratory Medicine. Please contact the Laboratory Medicine Outreach representative, Deborah Anthony, at (203) 688-8518 for more detailed and comprehensive listings of types of testing performed, disease processes evaluated, and consultative and diagnostic services available through our Outreach services. • Molecular Diagnostics • Apheresis and Stem Cell Processing • Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring • Immunology Laboratory • Prenatal and Perinatal Testing • Clinical Microbiology • Hematology and Coagulation • Virology • Flow Cytometry
Bridgeport Hospital
As of May 1, 2001, Yale Pathology became the exclusive provider of pathology services at Bridgeport Hospital, providing medical direction for all pathology and clinical laboratory services including point-of-care testing programs and medical education support throughout the Hospital. Each year, the Bridgeport Pathology Services handle 15,000 surgical pathology cases and 4,000 cytology cases, and perform over 1.4 million complex clinical lab tests.
A team of five full-time Yale pathologists are based at Bridgeport Hospital and available to provide diagnostic interpretations and consultation in both Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. In addition to our Bridgeport-based faculty, over 40 additional Yale faculty at Yale–New Haven Hospital stand ready to provide further consultative expertise. Collectively, this team brings to Bridgeport Hospital a level of competence in diagnostic pathology and laboratory medicine rivaled by few other institutions.
Shoreline Medical Center
Shoreline Medical Center 111 Goose Lane, Guilford, CT The Yale–New Haven Shoreline Medical Center is the state-of-the art facility that brings medical care in a community-based setting to residents of the Connecticut shoreline. As a satellite of Yale–New Haven Hospital, the center hosts a full emergency department and centers for surgery, diagnostic radiology, laboratory medicine, nuclear medicine, radiation oncology, and surgical pathology. Yale Pathology Labs provide the Center’s on-site surgical pathology and cytology services for patients and physicians. Anatomic Pathology Services available at Shoreline Medical Center feature: • Staff support by Yale Pathology Labs of the Yale School of Medicine, the most comprehensive diagnostic service in the area • Diagnostic Services for patients and physicians of the Shoreline Medical Center • Board-certified pathologists available on-site for immediate intraoperative consultations (frozen sections) • Board-certified cytotechnologists to perform on-site FNA adequacy evaluations for diagnostic radiology For more information regarding Yale Pathology Labs’ services at the Shoreline Medical Center, please contact Kevin Schofield, B.S., CT(ASCP) at (203 ) 737-2928.