Laboratory Services

Premier Full-Service Laboratories
MetroWest Medical Center offers two hospital based laboratories serving the Framingham and Natick area. The labs are full service with a comprehensive testing menu performing 98% of all tests on site at MetroWest Laboratory. Our equipment is state-of-the-art and highly automated, allowing us to provide high quality clinical analysis with accurate and timely results. Our medical technologists and histologists have many years of experience in laboratory medicine and can address your technical questions with the expertise necessary to best assist you. Our phlebotomists, processors, transcriptionists, and other support staff are well trained and dedicated to providing special laboratory services. As a result, they have the skill and focus required to meet the needs of the patients, physicians, and support personnel.

Service Locations
For your convenience, MetroWest Medical Center Laboratories have patient service centers located throughout the community. Patients benefit from quick and easy access to laboratory collection services with minimal disruption to their busy lives. Our service centers are staffed with highly trained laboratory personnel whose primary responsibility is to provide laboratory collection services for your patient satisfaction.

Courier Services
MetroWest Medical Center Laboratories cover our service area with a dedicated courier network that provides specimen pickup from your office. Flexible pick-up times can be arranged. Specimen lockboxes are provided as needed and we can arrange STAT specimen pickups. Our laboratory couriers receive special training in the proper handling and transportation of specimens to insure the integrity of patient samples.

STAT Services
Unlike many national laboratories, MetroWest Medical Center Laboratories can provide both same day and STAT service. Test results can be quickly transmitted to your office or called directly even if the request occurs after normal office hours.

Test Directory
MetroWest Medical Center Laboratories’ test directory provides detailed instructions for proper sample collection. The directory also includes information on fasting criteria and sample processing.

Information Technology
Our Meditech Web based software allows for result viewing directly from your office. Benefits include:
  • User friendly menu-driven functions
  • Automatic transmission of test result for quick, easy retrieval via the Internet
Board-Certified Pathologists
Medical direction is provided by a team of board certified pathologists. These pathologists have many years of experience and can offer assistance in the selection and interpretation of clinical laboratory tests. Besides years of clinical and anatomic pathology experience, many have additional expertise in specific specialties such as Cytopathology, Hematopathology and Radioisotopic Pathology. Our pathologists are readily available to actively consult with referring physicians to review cases and provide diagnostic interpretation.

Continuum of Care
Using the MetroWest Medical Center Laboratories for all your laboratory testing eliminates the worry of comparing and correlating test results from different laboratories, which may use varying methodologies and report formats. Our ability to provide you with a continuum of laboratory services also allows for quick retrieval of test results from both inpatient stays and outpatient visits with one telephone call or via the Internet.

Billing Services
MetroWest Medical Center Laboratories can accommodate most insurance plans and offers competitive patient prices and client fees. Our dedicated billing system produces easy-to-interpret, client and patient friendly billing statements.

Hours of Operation
Our patient service centers are open during normal weekday business hours with limited services on Saturdays.

Call us for any of your Laboratory needs at (508) 383-1177.

Framingham Union Hospital
M-F 7-6 Sat 7-12
115 Lincoln Street, 1st Floor
Framingham, MA. 01702
Phone 508-383-1080
Fax 508-383-1004


Metro West Physicians Group
M-F 8-12:30
260 Cochituate Road
Framingham, MA. 01702
Phone 508-532-6638
Fax 508-532-6639


Leonard Morse Hospital
M-F 7-6 Sat 7-12
67 Union Street, 3rd floor
Natick, MA. 01760
Phone 508-650-7302
Fax 508-650-7383


Sterling Medical Building (St. Vincent Physicians Group)
M-F 8-5 Closed 12-1
104 Leominster Road
Sterling, MA. 01564
Ph 978-422-0182
Fax 978-422-6178

Metro West Professional Medical Center
M-F 6am-5pm & Saturdays 7am-1pm
321 Fortune Blvd. 
Milford, MA. 01757
Phone 508-634-4950
Fax 508-634-4996


Lincoln Medical Building
M-F 7-5
61 Lincoln Street Ste. 106
Framingham, MA. 01702
Phone 508-620-0696
Fax 508-626-2673


Medical Office Building
M-F 7:30-4:30 Closed 12:30-1:30
475 Franklin Street
Framingham, MA. 01702
Ph 508-424-0636
Fax 508-628-0284


Medical Arts Building
M-Th 9-5 Fri 9-2 Closed 12-1
85 Lincoln Street Ste. 522
Framingham, MA. 01702
Ph 508-383-8777
Fax 508-383-8778


Metro West Physicians Group
M-F 7-4 Closed 12-1
74 Main Street
Medway, MA. 02053
Ph 508-533-4984
Fax 508-533-4929


Metro West Physicians Services
M-F 7:30-4:30 Closed 12-1
435 King Street
Franklin, MA. 02038
Phone 508-553-3275
Fax 508-553-3268

We are pleased to announce that MetroWest Medical Center will be opening two new Laboratory Patient Service Centers in March 2013!


Opening March 11, 2013
MetroWest Medical Center
Laboratory Patient Service Center
463 Worcester Road, Suite 102
Framingham, MA 01701 
Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday 7a-5p

Opening March 25,2013
MetroWest Medical Center
Laboratory Patient Service Center
54 Maple Ave.
Rutland, MA 01543
Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday 6:30am-3pm 

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