About Our Scheduled Lab Routes
Most of the specimen volume moving through a clinic or draw station is not STAT. It is the steady daily flow of CBCs, BMPs, lipid panels, and A1cs that need to reach a reference lab on a predictable timeline. A well-designed scheduled route handles that volume at the lowest cost and the highest reliability, and reserves STAT for the truly time-sensitive cases. Exodus Health Couriers builds scheduled routes around your facility's draw window, not ours. If your morning draws finish at 1030, the pickup is at 1030, not at whenever a generalist courier happens to be in the area. Multi-stop loops between clinics, draw stations, and reference labs are optimized so each leg honors specimen stability windows and lab acceptance criteria. The driver assigned to your route is the same person week after week. They learn your facility, your staff, the location of the specimen cooler, and the workflow that gets the bag sealed and out the door without slowing your team down. That continuity is what separates a scheduled medical-courier route from a general-purpose package run. Cold-chain handling on scheduled routes follows the same standards as STAT. We carry refrigerated (2 to 8 degrees C), frozen, and dry-ice configurations on every route vehicle, with continuous temperature monitoring and documentation. For Dayton-area clinics that route specimens to reference labs in Cincinnati or Columbus, we maintain standing inter-city handoff procedures that keep cold chain intact across the longer corridor. Pricing is volume-based. A single-facility daily route runs lower per-stop than ad-hoc pickup. Multi-facility networks see tiered volume discounts. Scheduled routes do not carry nights, weekends, or holidays surcharges, the contracted per-stop price is the price.
What's Included
Built Around Your Draw Window
Pickup time is set by your workflow, not the courier's. We adjust the schedule to your draw window so specimens leave the facility within the analyte's stability margin.
Dedicated Driver
The same driver runs your route week after week. They learn your facility, your staff, and your workflow so pickups are fast and consistent.
Multi-Stop Route Optimization
Multi-facility loops are sequenced so each leg honors specimen stability windows. CBCs, BMPs, coagulation, and other analytes are routed to their respective receiving labs on stable transit times.
Cold Chain on Every Stop
Refrigerated (2 to 8 degrees C), frozen, and dry-ice configurations on every route vehicle with continuous temperature monitoring. Cold-chain documentation is included with the delivery.
Chain-of-Custody Documentation
Tamper-evident bag, barcoded specimen, timestamped pickup and drop-off photos, signature capture. Every stop on the route produces an audit-ready record.
Volume Pricing, No Off-Hours Surcharges
Single-facility, multi-facility, and weekly route pricing. Tiered volume discounts for clinic networks. Scheduled routes carry no nights, weekends, or holidays surcharge, the contracted per-stop price is the price.
How Scheduled Lab Routes Works
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Workflow assessment
We review your draw window, specimen mix, receiving labs, and current pain points. The output is a draft route schedule with proposed pickup times and a per-stop pricing model.
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Route design and dry run
Multi-stop loops are sequenced to honor specimen stability. We do a dry run before go-live to validate timing and confirm your staff is comfortable with the handoff workflow.
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Go-live with dedicated driver
Your assigned driver starts the route on the agreed schedule. Pickup, transit, and drop-off documentation flows automatically into the chain-of-custody record.
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Ongoing reporting
Monthly reports cover on-time pickup percentage, average transit time, cold-chain compliance, and exception events. Adjustments to the schedule are easy to request and quick to implement.
Available Across the Miami Valley
We offer scheduled lab routes in every city we serve. Pick yours:
Request Scheduled Lab Routes
Tell us about your facility's needs. We respond with custom pricing within one business day.