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No, however Sonora Quest offers the gold standard molecular COVID-19 diagnostic testing. Learn more about the types of COVID-19 diagnostic and antibody testing here.

Sonora Quest offers the gold standard molecular COVID-19 diagnostic testing as well as antibody testing. Learn more about the types of COVID-19 diagnostic and antibody testing here.

Sonora Quest offers COVID-19 diagnostic testing both by carside and inside Patient Service Centers. These tests can be performed either with or without a health care provider’s order. Patients looking to order their own COVID-19 diagnostic or antibody test can learn more and do so here.

Business owners can use Sonora Quest’s Employer Solutions Portfolio to coordinate COVID-19 diagnostic and antibody testing for their employees. Sonora Quest can provide testing on site or coordinated group scheduling at a Patient Service Center. Learn more about Sonora Quest’s Employer Solutions Portfolio and how to set up an appointment here.

Turnaround times are updated daily on Sonora Quest’s COVID-19 daily dashboard found above on this webpage. As of 1/15/21:

COVID-19 ANTIBODY TESTING is being reported in under 24 hours from receipt.

COVID-19 ACTIVE INFECTION TESTING is being reported in under 24 hours from receipt for hospital customers and within 1-2 days from receipt for the majority of other testing.

Testing turnaround time may vary based on testing demand, supplies, and other factors.

Sonora Quest has provided and continues to provide data to the state on a daily basis.

There was only one instance of a delay in reporting on 6/28 because of a technical glitch in the system in uploading the increased data volume. This was quickly remedied and the state reported those numbers in their system the following day.

Operation Catapult made it possible to bring additional testing instrumentation online and our current capacity not only meets but exceeds current testing demands. Capacity will continue to increase in response to increases in demand for COVID-19 testing. 

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• On Aug. 3, Sonora Quest announced that it is now reporting new incoming COVID-19 diagnostic test results within a turnaround time of 1-3 days.
  
  
• • Note that our published turnaround time is 2-4 days.
    
    
• Sonora Quest continues to report results for COVID-19 antibody testing within 24 hours and testing capacity continues to exceed demand.
  
  
• Sonora Quest reports that it has three new dedicated COVID-19 production lines running with a focus on optimizing workflow. As additional testing lines are implemented over the coming weeks, Sonora Quest will continue to increase testing capacity.
  
  
  • Capacity will continue to increase as additional testing lines are added until a capacity of 60,000 tests per day is reached.
  • Sonora Quest’s ability to reach a 60,000 test per day capacity greatly positions Arizona’s readiness should the State experience a second wave of COVID resurgence.
  • Additionally, Sonora Quest has hired and trained more than 200 additional employees (full-time and temporary) to support the expansion in COVID-19 diagnostic testing.
  • As of today, Sonora Quest’s COVID-19 diagnostic testing capacity exceeds demand and they are the only lab in the U.S. able to make that claim.
• Sonora Quest continues to place an extreme emphasis on testing validation and therefore applies stringent acceptability criteria for precision, reproducibility, accuracy, method comparison and clinical performance.
  
  
• Sonora Quest continues to form strategic partnerships with local community organizations and state agencies to provide testing to the State’s most vulnerable and underserved populations. This includes partnerships with the Arizona Department of Health Services, Equality Health, and more.
  
  
• Sonora Quest will soon announce their COVID-19 Employer Solutions offering, a portfolio of lab testing and services to assist employers develop return to work strategies.

• We continue to make significant progress reducing our pending testing, which is now at approximately 3,535 tests with dates of service prior to August 1.

We continue to make significant progress reducing our pending testing, which is now at approximately 21,500 tests as of the morning of July 31. Note that this number includes recently submitted testing.

• Sonora Quest has made significant progress on the testing backlog, reducing it by more than 30,000 tests over the past several days.
  
  
• Our current backlog is at approximately 29,000 tests as of the morning of July 30.
  
  
• Our utmost priority is focusing on our backlog of testing and we expect to clear the backlog by Sunday, August 2.
  
  
• Two new testing lines are in production and our testing ramp up will continue to accelerate as we add an additional line, which is in the process of being validated and should be in production by July 31.
  
  
• We anticipate that a fourth line should be validated and in production the week of August 3.
  
  
• Starting Monday, August 3, testing on the new lines will be reported within 1 to 3 days, with an expectation to be reported within 1 to 2 days by the end of August as additional lines are put into production.
  
  
• As the additional testing lines are implemented and staff trained, Sonora Quest anticipates that it will be close to a capacity of 21,000 tests/day by Monday 8/3, and a capacity of 30,000 by Sunday 8/9. Capacity will continue to increase as we add additional testing lines until we reach a capacity of 60,000 tests/day.

Governor Doug Ducey announced today a strategic collaboration with Sonora Quest Laboratories, the market share leader in diagnostic laboratory testing in Arizona, the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) and PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, with one goal: expand COVID-19 testing in Arizona. The collaboration will support the strategic plan to catapult Sonora Quest’s COVID-19 diagnostic testing capacity in a material way to meet and exceed the rising demand in Arizona.

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Sonora Quest Laboratories (SQL) and hc1 have announced the expansion of their long-standing strategic partnership with the launch of hc1 CV19 Command Center™ for Sonora Quest, a comprehensive solution that integrates with SQL’s world-class lab testing services to systematically coordinate testing and deliver health insights to combat the spread of COVID-19. SQL is supporting the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) and the State Health Laboratory by performing targeted COVID-19 PCR viral and serology antibody testing to protect residents and healthcare staff across Arizona’s 147 long-term care (LTC) facilities. The hc1 CV19 Command Center is serving a vital role by providing advanced analytics that support effective testing of those most in need. The solution will also generate insight on risk of infection based on the anticipated 25,000 tests SQL will be performing statewide, enabling healthcare and public health leaders to take immediate, proactive steps to contain future COVID-19 infections and save lives.

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Sonora Quest Laboratories, the market share leader in diagnostic laboratory testing in Arizona, announced today expanded services for COVID-19 diagnostic swab and antibody serology testing at 147 long-term care (LTC) facilities in Arizona, and will conduct up to 25,000 tests statewide.

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Sonora Quest Labs donated 300 tests to Community Solutions, a national nonprofit that supports local efforts to end homelessness, to support efforts to test people experiencing homelessness in Maricopa County. Circle the City, a federally qualified health center that provides care for the homeless population, has been administering the tests and undertaking further assessments.

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Sonora Quest Laboratories, the market share leader in diagnostic laboratory testing in Arizona, announced today that consumers can begin ordering COVID-19 antibody testing without a physician order or insurance.

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Sonora Quest Laboratories, the market share leader in diagnostic laboratory testing in Arizona, announced on April 24, 2020 that it will ramp up its fight against COVID-19 and offer antibody testing for coronavirus (COVID-19) using blood specimens. With this new offering, Sonora Quest now provides healthcare providers in Arizona access to a COVID-19 antibody test as well as the molecular diagnostic testing that has been offered since mid-March.

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Sonora Quest Laboratories, the market share leader in diagnostic laboratory testing in Arizona, and its strategic partner, hc1, announce the availability of the CV19 Lab Testing Dashboard.

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Sonora Quest Laboratories, the market share leader in diagnostic laboratory testing in Arizona, announced it began processing COVID-19 nasopharyngeal and throat swab samples at their main laboratory in Tempe, on March 20, 2020. This strategic move will allow Sonora Quest to decrease anticipated turnaround time and increase the number of tests it can run per day for Arizona patients.

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Sonora Quest Laboratories, the market share leader in diagnostic laboratory testing in Arizona, today announced it will begin to provide testing for the coronavirus (COVID-19) in collaboration with one of its parent companies, Quest Diagnostics.

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