![]() Sister Maria Grace’s 38 years of service to our community through her work in the laboratory is complemented by an equal number of years of service to our community and beyond through her ministry with the Syracuse parish, Most Holy Rosary. Sister Maria Grace continues to find the work interesting, challenging and meaningful. Now she stays ahead of new technology through online training sessions. During her early years in the lab, she attended conferences to learn about industry changes. She operates the instruments that test for lead, celiac disease, lupus and more. The full-time medical technologist works in special chemistry at our Operations Center main laboratory. Joseph’s Hospital hired Sister Maria Grace in 1981, where she worked until she joined Laboratory Alliance in its inception year, 1998. Joseph’s Hospital, Carbondale, Pa., with the lab’s first automated instrument, February 1979Ī month later she learned about a job in Syracuse through a friend who was heading north to get her master’s in nursing from Syracuse University. After a single sleepless night, I said I’m not coming here!” It was so hot and all the girls were crowded into the one room at the convent with air conditioning. “The weekend after the Fourth of July holiday, I traveled to Maryland for an interview. “The congregation was not going to buy me a car!” she said. The church placed three criteria on her job search: it must be a Catholic hospital, she had to live in a convent and she needed to have access to public transportation. In 1969 I was officially hired by this hospital lab where I spent the next 12 years.”īy 1981, Sister Maria Grace wanted a change so she sent applications to laboratory job openings in Long Island, Pittsburgh, Scranton and Maryland. Joseph’s Hospital in Carbondale, Pa., where I continued to work in the laboratory. The next three years of my novitiate – or training – took place at St. Most were just out of high school, and these young postulants without college educations were directed toward degrees in education. I was one of the older girls in our group. 8, 1966, along with 49 other young women, that I became a postulant of the Congregation of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM), in Scranton. “My parents were not happy about my decision at the time,” she said, “but as they came to know the sisters I was living with, they changed their minds. Robert Packer Hospital Chemistry Lab, May 1966 The following year when I was working as a medical technologist at Robert Packer Hospital I listened to my heart,” she said. I wasn’t sure, but the longing stayed with me through college. Medical technology was not her only calling. She was hired by the hospital as a medical technologist where she worked for a year before making another change in her life. She spent three years at the college and a fourth year at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa., for the required internship to earn her bachelor’s degree in medical technology. “Once I had all this information I never wanted to do anything else.”įrom 1961 to 1965, she attended Marywood College in Scranton, Pa. From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, the capabilities of automated devices increased the number of laboratory tests that were being ordered, and medicine’s and surgery’s dependence on clinical chemistry was confirmed. This was in the mid-1950s and the role of the laboratory in clinical diagnosis and patient care was expanding at hospitals. “I heard from all the laboratory associations, despite it being a fairly new field at that time,” she said. She chose diseases as her themed essay topic and, as part of the assignment, mailed letters to healthcare organizations for information. Long before she was Sister Maria Grace or a medical technologist, Jeanne Quartiero was an eighth grader in Connecticut, and that is when she discovered an interest in medicine. Laboratory Alliance Operations Center, 2019 The news that longtime Laboratory Alliance Medical Technologist Sister Maria Grace Quartiero, IHM, celebrated her 50th Jubilee of Religious Profession in June is inspiration to share her story. P-TECH Ninth Grade Student Presentations at Corporate Office March 2019Ĭommunity Involvement Recognizing Medical Technologist Sister Maria Grace QuartieroĬelebrating 50 Years as a religious sister and even more as a medical technologist.OCM BOCES students visit the Operations Center.National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week ’23.Community Service at Ronald McDonald House Charities.Syracuse Workforce Run draws runners and walkers.Affiliated Pathologists and Doctoral Level Scientists.Request for Residual De-Identified Laboratory Specimens.NYS Department of Health Communicable Disease Phone Numbers.Test Requisitions/Consent/Patient History. ![]() Customer Service & Other Support Services.
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