West Coast Health Screening Services’ Heart Watch division is a fully insured state and federal CLIA-certified laboratory which specializes in public and corporate health screenings. It is the largest privately owned mobile laboratory on the West Coast. Heart Watch has been providing screening services for Long’s Drug Stores since 1989, and for such corporate and public service organizations as the Los Angeles County fire chiefs, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, and Mitsubishi.
Based in San Luis Obispo County, California, since 1989, Heart Watch provides safe, accurate, low-cost health screening services throughout California, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, and Nevada. The quality-control staff includes a physician and four medical technologists to assist the service teams in the field.
Test results and counseling generally are made available to screened individuals within 15 minutes. Counseling includes an explanation of the individual results and distribution of relevant literature.
Heart Watch uses the most current mobile analysis devices available to perform ultrasound osteoporosis screenings and blood analyses such as lipid panels for cholesterol screening, daily glucose and HbA1c screenings for diabetes, ALT and AST screenings for liver function, and allergy testing. Blood tests are performed by licensed phlebotomists, using a relatively painless finger-sticking technique.
