I don't normally leave Yelp reviews, but I had to say what a great experience I had here the other day with Tatiana! She was so incredibly sweet, and I never thought I'd say that I enjoyed getting my blood drawn until I spent the 10ish minutes I was there, with her! She is amazing with patient care, and you can tell she genuinely loves what she does and wants to help people, even in an environment that can be scary and uncomfortable for some. So thank you, Tatiana! You were amazing, and I hope you were able to have fun on your days off! read more

Always a great and painless experience at Quest in Cobblestone. Minimal wait time and exceptional customer service. Staff was great.

I ended up here because the other location was booked solid. I walked right in. I was seen immediately. The lab tech asked me how my morning went. Verified the doctor and the patient info stuff. Completed my blood work and I was out the door in 15 minutes or less. I will definitely come back to this location in the future. read more

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The employee at the entrance was friendly and helpful in signing in. I was taken in almost right away. It was very clean. I would definitely use this Quest again. read more

My daughter had an appointment at 10:45 this morning we are still sitting here at 11:51. We are still sitting in the waiting room. Ridiculous! What is the point of making an appointment. ?! read more

Their IT and patient services are bogus. Nothing works the way it should. It tells me my name is not my name. The call says press one to get a call back and NOTHING happens. read more

This is one of the better locations I've been too. Super quick process and clean facility. Today was the first time I've been back in about 2-3 years, they've renovated and updated the check in process to be efficient and fast, all done on a tablet. Melvin was my technician/phlebotomist for my appointment today and he was great! If I had the option to be seen by him every time I would opt in for that. I have small veins so people typically use my hand rather than arm, he ensured me he would find the best location and wouldn't poke me more than once. Safe to say he stuck to his word! I also get a little anxiety when it comes to needles sometimes just because of the anticipation, but Melvin made me very comfortable with his humor and reassurance. I was in and out within 12 minutes!! Great experience today. read more

Walked in at 9:30am, checked in and knew we'd be waiting awhile. After 2 hours I asked about walk ins and are you taking walk ins.. answer Yes. Sat back down for another hour, talked again to someone told them we have been here 3 hours, are you taking walk ins? He said I'll get right with you. Another 45 mins we just left. Just tell people NO WALK INS WE ARE RUNNING BEHIND! That's all they needed to do. When you check in, there isn't a person anywhere! Just a wall with a door and nobody comes out with information. Awful terrible service. I went to Walgreens, 15 minutes and I was done. Yes they had people waiting before us like maybe 6 people. Got us in and out with no problem. I know appointments are best, BUT ANY BUSINESS WOULD LET PEOPLE KNOW THEY CANT GET THEM TODAY! NEVER EVER COMING BACK. read more

Have an appointment- 10 people waiting outside (only 4 chairs). A couple of people inside. This is not good. Do you need more staff? More people arriving- wow the line is getting longer. Not right when you have an appointment. read more

Quest Diagnostics - A line today. - Laboratory Testing Near Me - St Augustine, Florida

Inexcusable service and lack of communication. Scheduled an appointment two weeks out for an earlier time to avoid missing too much work. Received several email confirmations. Arrived to the lab this morning only to find sign on door that the location was closed; use the Cobblestone location. Drove back to that one and unable to use the appointment. Insufficient time to wait as a walk-in and return to work on time. Double-checked email and NO notification of closing. I did go to the website and see a notice that the location closed yesterday, but who goes to the website to check when confirmation emails were received!? How hard would it have been to send out emails to everyone who took the time to make an appointment? Now I have to replan and miss more work at another time. Unacceptable. read more

I've gotten blood work done at this location for years. Service is always super fast when I make an appointment. It is very easy to make an appointment online or through the app. Service is even faster when I upload my insurance information ahead of time. I never have issues with wait times when I make an appointment. Very efficient and easy. read more

Quest Diagnostics is a complete nightmare. You have to sign in via tablet with no person up front to help anyone. The only time you can see someone is when they call whoever's appointment is up next. If they can get to you after everyone else is out of the way, they'll get to you. You're just left waiting in the lobby on a stand-by list, watching on screen. There's no receptionist or anything to help blind people or sick people. It's a complete mess and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. read more

Quest Diagnostics - All you get when you walk in - Laboratory Testing Near Me - St Augustine, Florida

I had called the 888 number and it gave me an appointment for 12.00am. Went 90 minutes early and checked in. There are no receptionist so I told one of the workers I'm here and would like to be seen earlier if there are openings. I was shocked that they took countless walk-ins with No Appointment and ignore me because I had an appointment. It seems walk in get priority than early appointments. This is where big companies like Quest get totally lost in technology. Sucks. read more

Do not. I repeat. Do not go here. Quest is just an absolute disaster. I am in the medical field and it does not take this long to do the things. It's like they purposely go slow so they can avoid work. And closing at 3pm? Are you kidding? And trying to make an appointment is just ridiculous and hard to do it the first place unless you want to call and try to get the robot to understand you. Go to Flagler lab. It's NEVER been a 2 hour wait. And don't walk in because they will purposely go slow to get another appointment patient versus helping the ones who have been sitting here for hours. I don't know how this place is still up and running. read more

Do not.I repeat.DO NOT go by that reviewer lol Fast, SUPER clean and fresh facility, excellent phlebotomist in rm #3 today, 9:10 am appointment, I always forget names... but he was so kind. I am here 4-6 times a year.Staff members are great with anxious patients. For the disgruntled commenter... Calling and making an appointment is fast, easy and RECOMMENDED. The recording specifically states walk-INS welcome but common sense tells you.....will not have priority. I appreciate that they do not rush you. read more

It is sad how uncaring the person taking care of patients was this morning. Also it is sad that you sit there for 2 hours only to be turned away. No appointments available for the next 12 days so we had no choice but to be a walk-in. When you check in at the kiosk it should be able to let you know if you'll be seen that day based on the number of appointments scheduled. After sitting for 2 hours the employee came out and said, "if you don't have an appointment, we won't be able to see you today because we close in 45 minutes. Please come back Monday, we open at 6am." How are we supposed to know if we will sit there all day on Monday only to be turned away again. Seriously, there is no one at the test center to even ask. The door to the procedure rooms is locked and the person bringing patients back wouldn't talk to us. read more

There needs to be someone for walkins. We arrived before 6 am due to a fasting blood draw. The staff refused to take any walkins saying appointments have priority. Had not had a blood draw in quite a bit so did not know they had changed to this type system. You can not always preplan weeks ahead for a blood draw. I tried to look for an appointment but they had none available for days. I was the first signup for walkin and 3 hours later still not taken in. This is to long to jave to wait when you could possibly be exposed to something read more

I had a great experience here. I made my appointment online in advanced. I just needed some blood drawn for routine testing. I checked in on my phone upon arrival and only had to wait about 15 minutes past my appointment time. The waiting room is nice and clean, and the staff were friendly! I recommend this location. read more

This is place is the absolute worst. Customer service is crap and they are more concerned about when their lunch break is than helping a patient. I had my orders ready to go but instead of reading them they handed them back to me and shoved me out the door in a span of 5 minutes. They refuse to be helpful and they are very cut and dry with their patients. Teresa and Diane were extremely rude. Melvin was the only healthcare provider that was helpful. Thank you Melvin read more

lab test titred of being told by quest to wait 2 weeks for an appt contacted my dr office who said many other patients have complained and they sugested labcorp instead. found walgreens advertising walk in no appts at most locations. tried one today in saintaugustine fla. i could not have been happier. no waiting ,opens at 7am took me right in private area very professional ii will neve go back to quest again. read more

I had a great experience at this location. I will say that it is always a better experience when you have an appt instead of being a walk in. Teresa was awesome and made me feel very comfortable. Please remember that the staff is trying their best, and if you are a walk in (and hungry) your experience might be a little influenced by that. read more

Zero stars. Do not go here. Go anywhere else. I think they had 2 people working, waiting room was filled to the brim. Other people waiting said that the hours+ wait time is very typical. read more

I made an appointment for fasting bloodwork and am sitting here waiting after 45 minutes. The lobby is full of walk ins and they have all been taken ahead of me! Never will i go here again!! read more

Staff was ok with me but a man showed up at 10::55 and they refused to serve him, I felt bad. Staff doesn't seem to like their job very much. I felt that I was an inconvenience to them and I arrived at 10am, but I got what I needed so I'm fine read more

My mother had lab work that she had to get done ASAP. We went on the website to see if there's any availability in either of the two centers in town. Neither one had availability for the next month so we called my mother's physicians office and both of them told her to walk in by Friday because she really need lab work done prior to coming her appointment the following week. My mother walked in around 7 AM on Friday. She understood they would be a wait because she didn't have an appointment. About two hours, she was called to the back by Teresa come to find out she's also the center manager. She was very nasty with my mother and told her the next time that she has two requisition she needs to make an appointment because they have to input these lab requisitions into the computer by hand. She was scolding my mother like she was a child mind you, my mother is in her 70s. My mother was really nice with her and told her that we tried to go online and schedule an appointment and they have no availability and either of us facilities close to her there are only two in town. She was very nasty with my mother if it wasn't for the fact that she really needed this lab work done she would've left. I called corporate and filed a complaint. People like her have no business working with the public let alone being a manager. My mother was there the week prior and had an awesome experience with Melvin. read more

Had an appointment, but forgot my paperwork and had to go home for it. I was told it was not a problem and my appointment would be 'paused'. I was back within 15 minutes. When I checked back in, the kiosk informed me that my appointment was canceled because I was 10 minutes late. I have now been waiting over 40 minutes with no end in sight. I wish I had gone to Flagler Hospital where I never waited more than 15 minutes, even without an appointment. read more

Summary: The woman phlebotomist with long, wavy, naturally red hair is VERY GOOD at her job--skilled with a needle & great with anxious patients. If you're near St. Augustine and have to give Quest some blood, come to CBL Drive Quest & ask if this phlebotomist is working. (I wish I remembered her name!) Long form: Ok, so venipuncture is my one & only Incapacitating Phobia. I never want to get my blood drawn, ever. That said: I no longer live a life where I can just avoid blood draws for, say, 16 years at a time (*ahem*), so I've developed a personal protocol for getting through phlebotomy. A big part of my protocol is getting to know my phlebotomist ahead of time, so you can imagine how excited I was when suddenly I had to get blood drawn at some random Quest station in a town three plane-hours from where I live. (SPOILER: NOT AT ALL EXCITED.) But hey, guess what? The woman who drew my blood at CBL Drive Quest actually did a great job, both with my arm and with me as a person. Whew. So, okay. I booked the only available next-day appointment, then turned up 2 hours early at the time I'd actually wanted. I signed in at a kiosk with a printed QR code and waited no longer than 10 or 15 min. There were also real people at the front desk who were able to enter my insurance info. The phlebotomist who came to get me was a woman with long, wavy, naturally red hair (whose name I regrettably don't remember). I explained that, because I have a difficult time with phlebotomy, I had prepared one arm with Emla cream & would be disappearing into my headphones for the duration of the procedure. Her response was PERFECT--casual but respectful, unruffled, like that was totally normal & fine and she sees that stuff all day. I told her that I need a butterfly needle, & her response was simply, "Sure!"; then I looked over & saw that she'd already selected one for me. So far, so good. When it came to the actual draw, the phlebotomist was great. She was swift & gentle with the needle, & already knew how to communicate instructions through touch. (In other words: I was not her first headphones-&-closed-eyes patient!) The whole thing was quick and almost as painless as phlebotomy can be, and the next day I had only a lentil-sized little bruise. Not bad at all. Tl;dr: Thanks, Awesome Ginger Phlebotomist. I was freaked out about having to let a stranger stick me, and you sent me back to my trip with no new phlebotomy trauma. A+. read more

DO NOT GO HERE! Worse customer service ever! If I could give this place negative stars I would. I love how the responded to the comment, but yet I can't get in contact with them and the phone just rings no matter what office I call. read more

Why make an appointment and have a 71 minute wait? Ridiculous. I should have driven to Jacksonville. It would have been quicker. read more

I have had two horrible experiences with staff at this Quest location. Absolutely rude staff members on both occasions. Most recently I waited with my son for almost two hours and when I inquired about the wait, this staff member in maroon scrubs didn't even turn around to get any eye contact with me. She told me it could be a 4 hour wait and showed no level of caring at all. Thirty plus people had come and gone as we were still waiting. I finally gave up and left. I work in healthcare and this level of attitude would not be tolerated at my job without consequences. I understand being under staffed and long wait times, but the rude attitude is unacceptable. I will never return to this location!! It would be nice if Quest actually provided a phone number to talk to a human to complain, but I guess they don't care about their patients. read more

I made an appt for 1:20 on Aug 23. I had been fasting for the labs since before midnight. I arrived at approx 1:15 went in & scanned by driver's license, insurance card & a QR code that quest sent me. I forgot my Drs lab orders thinking that he had also sent them electronically. I also had my wife text me a copy of the lab orders. I was called back to room 1 & the tech tried to lookup the lab orders but we're not submitted electronically. She wouldn't even look at my phone to see the lab orders but seemed happy to kick me out of her office like she would have another 10 minutes for a break. I came back 5 minutes later with the paper lab orders & had to register as a walk in. The kiosk said there were no more appts that day. I called & filed a complaint with Quest. They told me that they had to submit lab orders with the lab work as otherwise it could be fraudulent. What? After I scanned my driver's license, insurance card, & a QR code that Quest sent me. Why would anyone commit fraud for blood tests related to high cholesterol & liver function?? I promptly looked up other options for lab tests. To my surprise there were many other choices nearby. I was a customer of Quest for over 10 years. No more........ read more

Beware of going here! These people have no idea what they are doing. I had an appointment to have some routine blood work done and this was by far the worst experience. The lady that called me back had an attitude from the start. She couldn't figure out the doctors orders on my paperwork, so she was annoyed about that. When it came time for her to do the blood draw, she kept saying how "bright red" my blood was and that it's a sign of blood disease or anemia. Once she took the needle out, my arm blew up the size of a softball and it was incredibly painful. When I brought this to their attention, another nurse just told me that sometimes that part of the arm is sensitive and to put ice on it. Come to find out, the lady BLEW MY ARTERY. The blood was so bright because it was from an artery, not a vein. You would think that someone in this profession would know that. So, now it's been 5 days.... My arm is still swollen and terribly bruised... all for routine bloodwork that I get to pay for! read more

Quest Diagnostics - Blown artery - Laboratory Testing Near Me - St Augustine, Florida

My doctor thought I could walk-in to Quest anytime. When I arrived, there is nobody to check you in, it's done thru a kiosk. It told me there were no appts available but I could wait and they could try to fit me in. Since I had fasted and driven a long way, I decided I could wait. There were four patients already there. I figured it takes a few minutes per patient even if they have only one technician. Two hours later, with nobody giving us updates, we just sat there dumbly watching people through the glass door, I heard a boy say to an elderly man he was with, and who had been there ahead of me say, "It's been three hours and we're still waiting..." So I left. Wasted morning. Nobody bothers to speak to or update anybody waiting. Maybe they are short-staffed but there were several people back there and I couldn't figure out why they take a few minutes to do a blood test and clear out the waiting room. Maybe the same workers are somehow processing all the lab specimens? And they don't have anybody to collect blood? Seems to make no sense. In just a few minutes a technician could have cleared the waiting room by collecting specimens. But the worst part was a few days later, I got an email telling me my test results were in. I was curious since I'd had no tests. It turns out another person's test results were in my account, all her blood work, name, personal info, etc. I tried to alert Quest online but they make it pretty impossible. When you try to email or chat they require a lab test number, which I didn't have. I was also wanting to make sure my insurance wasn't charged for the other person's test. I won't be back. read more

I only give this place 5 stars because of Diane the phlebotomist! She is amazing and her personality shouldn't be in this crap hole of a place. The manger is absolutely rude. Also why is it they don't provide mask? Anyways Diane is absolutely amazing and my favorite and I think I'll only continue to use this location because of her. Ask for Diane! Amazing! read more

I had a appointment and was ignored . Everyone else was served. Then they noticed I was missed (blamed it on the computer) then they processed the people w/o appointments that came in after me. Finally when the waiting room was empty they called me. Total incompetence. The place could use a cleaning. read more

Run Away! To put it bluntly, they Suck! The med tech (older Hispanic female) doesn't know her Left from her Right! Literally! I tell her that for 25yrs in the military they always had good luck drawing blood from my left arm, so this tech goes directly to my right arm and works to find a good blood source - No Luck! So she goes to my left arm and Bam - Success! As she's bandaging me up, she tells me I should not offer up the arm that is difficult. I tell her that I told her from the get go my left arm is the best to draw blood and that when I say my left, it's her right as she's facing me. That pissed her off and she catches major attitude! Later in the day I take bandages off both arms and have bruises that I've never experienced before! This is my second trip to Quest and will be the last, and again - They Suck! Go to Flagler! read more

Very happy with how quickly they got me through. Also remember you can schedule an appointment ahead of time online. read more

Quest Diagnostics - Nice clean waiting room with the news on. Plenty of seating. - Laboratory Testing Near Me - St Augustine, Florida

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Don't usually have an issue but when I have an appointment at 8:15 and ask why my wait went from 5 to 22 due to walk ins they said don't go by that. Half am Hour later still sitting here watching 3 walk ins go in. What is the point in scheduling and lying to a patient? read more

Every single Quest location I've gone to has been the most poorly run useless lab in town. And for some reason they are the ONLY company in town that my insurance covers. read more

Walked in and had no appointment. The receptionist immediately registered me. She was very helpful and friendly. Less then 5 minutes, I was called back by the technician. I told Latoya that my veins are hard to find. She immediately ask for a special needle. Latoya took her time looking for a good vein. She got the draw on the first try. She left me with no bruising. She was professional, lister and very friendly. The office was very clean. read more