Career areas

With powerful technologies at your fingertips as a laboratory professional at Kaiser Permanente, you'll facilitate accurate diagnoses and help ensure the highest level of patient care. Offering modern facilities, advanced equipment and systems, and flexible schedule options, we provide a dynamic work environment in which you'll continue to learn and grow.

Our clinical laboratory scientists work in both outpatient clinics and hospital settings and have an opportunity to gain exposure to different areas, including chemistry, coagulation, hematology, urinalysis, and the blood bank. We also operate reference laboratories in each of our regions, which serve as hubs for specimen processing and analysis as well as specialized testing.

Areas of specialization include the following (not all services are available at all medical centers):

• Blood Bank
• Blood Chemistry
• Coagulation
• Cytology
• Endocrinology
• Flow Cytometry
• Hematology
• Genetic Testing
• Histology
• Immunology
• Laboratory Information Systems
• Microbiology
• Serology
• Toxicology
• Transfusion Services
• Urinalysis
• Virology