News Release

July 17, 2008

Contact: Maureen McGuire, 860-679-4523
e-mail: mmcguire@nso.uchc.edu

UConn Opens New Blood Drawing Center in Bristol

Patient Service Center and Blood Drawing Facility on Terryville

FARMINGTON, CONN. – For the convenience of people who live and work in Bristol, the UConn Health Center recently opened a new Patient Service Center and Blood Drawing Facility on 665 Terryville Avenue. The facility is in the Chippens Hill Family Health Care Center and across the street from Wojtusik’s Nursery and Garden.

The facility is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., excluding 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All are welcome. Clinical lab services are provided by the John Dempsey Hospital at UConn Health Center, which also provides blood drawing services in several locations on the Health Center campus in Farmington, as well as the East Hartford and West Hartford offices of UConn Health Partners.

For more information, call 800-535-6232 or 860-585-9813.

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