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Phlebotomy Services
University Hospital Clinics, Room
1.610
Telephone: (409) 772-9244
Hours of Operation: Monday through Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Primary Care Pavilion, Entrance A
400 Harborside Drive, Suite 102
Galveston, Texas 77550
(409) 772-5571
(409) 777-8945
Hours of Operation: Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Texas City Family Health Care Center
9300 Emmitt Lowery Expressway,
Suite 138 Texas City, Texas 77590
(409) 986-9592
Hours of Operation: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Closed for lunch 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Four C - Hospital
(409) 772-6153
Hours of Operation: Monday 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. & Tuesday through Friday, 8:00
a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Phlebotomists do not:
- Draw specimens from a heparin lock, shunt or other indwelling
device; draw below an IV line.
- Draw blood from a lower extremity without the written
permission of the attending physician.
- Perform arterial punctures.
- Make more than three attempts to obtain a specimen from a
patient.
- Draw specimens for Type and Crossmatch.
Stat tests, timed specimens and blood cultures from
inpatients are to be collected by the nursing or medical staff. A phlebotomist will draw a
STAT or timed specimen if they are on the unit at the time the specimen is to be drawn.
The phlebotomist will notify the nurse when a phlebotomy procedure has not been
successful.
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