My experience has been Nothing but Positive I go to Quest once or twice a month I do walk in and have NEVER had to wait longer then 1/2 an hour I go to Quest Because I am "a Hard Stick" And They Always Get It on The First try! I am Thankful for My Experience read more

Quest should be ashamed at their PRICES! If you want to experience what socialized medicine looks and feels like, this is it! And the prices are insane. The staff is nice though. But shame on the Quest scam! read more

They are being remodeled as of January 2026 and keep accepting appointments then canceling a couple hours before. Awful approach to customer service. Rescheduling to a reasonable time pushes you out weeks at other centers. Don't schedule here. So, site has been closed a month and they are providing no information on re open date. read more

CANCELLED MY APPOINTMENT and CLOSED OFFICE. NO WARNING, NO PHONE CALL, NO EMAIL, NO TEXT. I took off work for a scheduled blood test which was made weeks ago and I get to the office and NO ONE WAS THERE!!! Get your doctor or care provide to switch you to LABCORP- there are multiple locations in SM. read more

Instead of using the 15th St location go to 2001 Santa Monica Boulevard where they do Quest orders as walk-ins without wait in comfortable conditions. The company name is Pacific Medical Center and they have a contract with Quest. You just roll in, give them your insurance card and ID, they find your Quest order in their computer and draw your blood. I never waited more than perhaps 10 minutes. This is a hidden gem and a way to check out of the 15th St location insanity. I wish I had found the SMBlvd location earlier as I had suffered through the 15th St wait, bureaucracy, staff hiding behind the electronic sign-in kiosk and many mishaps too many times before. read more

Thank you Lecia! You made it so easy and it was a great experience. You found my vein and made it happen without pain! read more

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Don't bother coming here without an appointment. Wait times are wildly inaccurate - myself and another patient waited 4 hours, and were finally turned away at noon as the staff had lunch and they do not take walk-ins in the afternoon. Even when appointments are missed and no patients are being serviced, the remaining phlebotomists/staff would rather loudly talk amongst themselves and laugh in the hallway than service patients on the standby list. While I understand that appointments are given priority, it's frustrating to know that zero effort is given to accommodate patients on the standby list. Quest should remove the "walk-ins welcome" advertisement from their website so more people don't waste an entire morning and $28 on parking to receive no service. read more

Quest Diagnostics - 0/4 patients being serviced while staff spends their time chatting in the hallway instead of taking walk-ins - Laboratory Testing Near Me - Santa Monica, California

The women who drew my blood at Quest failed to make me clot properly. I had to make an emergency stop at my regular treating facility at Kaiser as the cotton she placed per KP was below the standard of care and did not place enough pressure to make me clot. My entire cotton ball was full of blood by the time i ran to KP after Quest, and then KP had to re-tape me and elevate my arm until i clotted. I have had my blood drawn so many times and this had never happened. read more

This is my third time coming here and absolutely my last time. This location has staff that is rude, unprofessional and just doesn't communicate. It doesn't matter if you have an appointment or are a walk in (I've had both) .. they will be absolutely rude and treat you like you needing to get your blood taken is an inconvenience to them. QUEST - do better. There's a reason why the rating for this location is so low - your staff is terrible to people. read more

Appointment was for my daughter. Check in at kiosk was easy using QRC code that was sent to me through email when I scheduled my appointment online. Details were already sent to Quest by doctor so they already knew what they needed to do. Technician was kind and gentle with my very nervous daughter. She made her feel comfortable and talked her through procedure. It was quick and easy. It was the day after Thanksgiving so office was not busy. Office was clean. Parking was easy but there is meter parking out front. read more

It was like visiting decrepit gas station that just happened to do blood draws. Hostile signs taped up all over. The overall vibe is that customers make them angry & they would rather we all would just go away. read more

This office closes for lunch at 12:00pm. I was a walk in but arrived and checked in by 11:43am WITH NO ONE WAITING. A nurse walks out 30 seconds later to say I need to come back after lunch. WTF?! If you close at 11:45am then update the website, etc. to reflect it. I've never had by draws that take more than 15 minutes anyway. WTF! read more

I had an appointment and even though they were backed up and had lots of walk-ins they still saw me and finished the blood test really quickly. It was a great experience! read more

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If I could give zero stars, I would. I had a 2:30 PM appointment on July 22 at the Quest Diagnostics in Santa Monica (15th Place), just to give blood for a test. What should've been a quick and simple process turned into a painful and frustrating ordeal. I'm a Black man, and I don't know if it's lack of training or experience, but the phlebotomists here stuck me four times--twice in each arm--before finally getting it right. Four times to draw blood is unacceptable. Do better. Get better training. Hire staff who know how to draw blood from all types of people, regardless of skin tone or vein visibility. To make matters worse, they put medical tape directly over one of the puncture sites while it was still bleeding, instead of properly cleaning and bandaging it. That's basic care, and they failed at that too. This was easily one of the worst experiences I've had giving blood. It was painful, careless, and left me feeling completely disregarded as a patient. I won't be coming back. read more

The person who took my blood was rude and incompetent. They broke my vain/bruised me badly, and took blood from a location that is in general more painful and easy to bruise than the typical one. She seemed to be miserable and want to make everyone she meets miserable too. read more

Quest Diagnostics - Laboratory Testing Near Me - Santa Monica, California

Lesia is the best, so professional yet funny and cracked me up so much I forgot all about the needle! I hope I get her any time I need blood drawn read more

They gave me a hematoma from a simple blood draw, tried calling but couldn't get through. This has never happened to me before and it genuinely is slightly painful.. this definitely could've been avoided as the last time I was here this didn't occur. read more

Quest Diagnostics - Laboratory Testing Near Me - Santa Monica, California

Had an appointment, was in and out within 10 minutes. Deborah was lovely :) The whole experience was a breeze.

Usually they stop taking walk - ins at 3:45pm. Fortunately, they allowed me to slip in after that when another person was late for their appointment. The team was very professional. Even at the end of the day when they could have turned me away, they took the extra step to slide me in when the opportunity arose. If you want to walk - in...make sure to get there before 3:45pm. If the other client had not been late for her appointment, I would have had to leave without getting my labs drawn. Many thanks to the team at Quest for going the extra mile this time! read more

The rudest treatment I've ever received from a medical worker I can't recommend avoiding this place enough and also their hours are inaccurate. They close at 4 PM. read more

Licia is AMAZING!!! I am so thankful for her patience and care. She went above and beyond to help me locate my lab request from the doctor. She made me feel relaxed and I don't like doing blood work. She made the process actually enjoyable and seemless. I highly recommend this facility and ask for Licia and tell her I sent you! read more

I made an appointment online with no account and just walked in and they took me right at appointment time with no fuss. They were very nice and polite at the front desk and drew my blood with no problem. I don't know why the reviews are so negative! Great experience read more

If I could give zero stars, I would. There was no information anywhere that an appointment was required. I arrived at 10 AM, no one was at the front desk, and the system gave me an appointment time for 2 PM. I had paid for 20 minutes of parking and had to keep running out to extend it -- parking is $7 every 30 minutes! I had prepared for a urine test and drank a lot of water in advance. I told the nurse that I urgently needed to use the restroom and asked if I could get a container to leave a sample. She said no because I hadn't signed documents yet. I've now been waiting for over an hour. The line is only getting longer. I'm still 4th in line, and there are no places left to sit or even stand comfortably. They work extremely slowly and inefficiently. The service here is awful. I will never come back to this location again. read more

They are open but it's ridic they have closed off the reception area - awful they have no help, if u call u can't reach a person, etc. Now the waiting room is small, stuffy, etc. Supposedly moving to diff office in the budge so why build a wall that says patients are unimportant. Also I am having issues with their results. They told me that they have issues with their cholesterol tests and I can bear that out. I get completely diff results at labcorp. How many people are on meds they don't actually need bc of this? SHAME ON U - IT IS CALLED CUSTOMER CARE!!! The very least u can do is have correct results. Go to a diff lab other than QUEST - it's worth the cost - need to be able to get accurate results - it's paramount!!!! Women who work there are all basically jive once u break thru to their just uninterested exterior and generally fine at taking blood but who cares if the results are wrong?! read more

I can not speak for all the locations but the one in Santa Monica 1260 15th street is absolutely horrible. Everyone in this place are like robots. I asked the guy at the desk a simple question about making an appoint and all he can say is he can't do anything I have to call the number. I was 10 mins late today because my child was sick and when I arrived they canceled my appointment and told me I had to make a new. They made me wait over 45 mins on my last visit but you cant wait 10 mins? I have been to this location 2 times and that is more than enough for me. This is the grace you now get from the medical field. They make you wait as long as it takes them because their time is more valuable than yours and people who can't even communicate in a manner that helps patients. Get your labs done at LABCORP in Santa Monica if you need help. They are helpful, polite, will give you better direction and have A LOT more bedside manner that this hole in the wall. read more

I went here for some blood testing very recently (scheduled appointment). Unfortunately, I had a phlebotomist who was either in a hurry or did not know what she was doing and blew my vein as a result. I have NEVER had this happen to me before at other clinics. Would not recommend coming to this location again. read more

Quest Diagnostics - Laboratory Testing Near Me - Santa Monica, California

Had appointment for several weeks. Someone decided to close Gilroy, Wren Ave. But no one informed me. How rude as well as unprofessional! No way to run a business. Since Quest is the only game in town, complaints go unattended. read more

THE ABSOLUTE WORST PEOPLE WORK HERE!!! Do not go here - there is a LabCorp and several quest diagnostics in the area. The 2 women were rude and claimed there was a sign that they were closing early- no sign and made 5 of us wait over 45 minutes. Incredibly unprofessional dirty and RUDE office read more

The care quality was poor,the supervisor was rude and ignored me when I asked her a question Neither of the technicians had the skills to draw my blood and the blood was not drawn.She asked the other technician if I had an appointment and she try to treat me differently because I was a walk in.Who does that? Waste of time and energy. read more

I came into get blood draws for some medical tests requested by my doctor. I received a text message before arriving, indicating that I was supposed to select some hyperlink from the text. The hyperlink did not lead to anything. I got confused and was looking for a person, of a human being, to assist and clarify what I needed to do the person who had been at the reception desk completely ignored me when ultimately, I figured that all out with the help of another patient, they denied having the request. The experience was both unhelpful and frustrating. read more

Horrible disorganized mess of a place. I have a vital medication that I need to have blood tests monthly for, followed by a doctor appointment to review the test ~3-4 days later, and then only after that can pick up a prescription. I have a one standing blood order that I gave to Quest that covers the tests for all months. The first month, they completely lost my results, causing me have to last-minute cancel my follow up doctor appointment (getting charged $50) and even worse not being able to pick my medication, until days later when Quest finally found the results. For second month, today, I went in and they said they have no record of the blood order being "standing" and therefore cannot take my test. My doctor isn't available to send a new order until later this week, so again I will be without medication for some time. I am not sure Quest realizes that people coming in often have health concerns and are relying on them to provide a service to help them. If they did, maybe they wouldn't be this careless with their patients records. read more

Terrible parking , terrible service and no customer service what's so ever ! Short Latina lady very rude ! Very dismissive! I had an appointment and was made to wait ! Waited 1 hr for them not to help not 1 person out of the 4 waiting ! Worst quest I have ever been to! read more

I was here yesterday 9/25/24 4 stars because you can tell that the receptionist were avoiding coming to the front and avoiding eye contact but they have a self check in system where you don't need to talk to them at all! It's very easy and a quick way to check in I made an appointment for a blood test at 1:30 and I was out by 1:40!! The only interaction I had was with the person who took my blood and she was very nice so my experience was good compared to the other reviews read more

Request Whitney...the short woman is not experienced apparently--she provided most painful blood draw I've had in years.

If I could give 0 stars I would. I waited here for an hour and a half, and when I checked in with a nurse to confirm that - in fact - I am not invisible and my human body is visible to the naked eye, she said to me (with the attitude of an unpaid h**ker, that if my wait becomes 2 hours) then I would just have to leave an make another appt (which another very impossible thing to do online). There is no one working at the front desk. No office manager or supervisor was to be found. And not a SINGLE person in the waiting room was happy (by the end of my wait they had all gotten there after me, but had still waited for at least an hour). This place needs to go out of business and that "nurse" needs an attitude adjustment the size of Jupiter. read more

Staff was rude. My father had an appointment even though we had a confirmation number they only let him in as a walk in. Staff started to argue with us even though we had to wait since cause they said we were a walk in even though we had an appointment read more

Why do they say everywhere walk in's welcome if there are only 2 employees .... I waited over 2 hours. When they say walk ins welcome... don't believe it. Appointments (as they should be) are prioritized and taken right away but I wish they promoted "appointments highly suggested" rather than making it seem like walk ins are a breeze. Definitely will never come without one again. read more

Phlebotomist did serious damage to my vein. Quest is the worst. It's nearly impossible to talk to a customer service person and the phlebotomists are poorly trained. I seriously wish doctors would get wise to the fact and choose someone else. From now on, I'm going to insist I get my tests done somewhere else because my poor arm can't take the abuse. read more

Quest Diagnostics - After digging around in my vein with a needle. - Laboratory Testing Near Me - Santa Monica, California

Don't ever go to a quest diagnostic, they don't even have anybody working at the front desk, awaiting room of people, dropping off a specimen that needs to be refrigerated and I've been waiting 45 minutes, I don't even know when anybody will take it.so poorly ran. I thought quest diagnostic was a reputable company. read more

Excellent facility really clean and they were wonderful to deal with. I am paralyzed and they accommodated me. I went there for a blood test at the start and the staff are extremely efficient. I highly recommend this quest center. It's on the ninth floor beautiful views they accept walk-ins as well as appointments. They're extremely efficient. read more