# Ascend Clinical

> Ascend Clinical is a Sunnyvale-based laboratory specializing in kidney-care diagnostics and healthcare water testing. Its services combine automated testing, LabCheck ordering and reporting software, and AscendU staff education. Eurofins acquired the company in 2024.

- **Founded:** 2000
- **Headquarters:** Sunnyvale, United States
- **Products:** Clinical and dialysis testing, CKD testing, LabCheck, LabCheckGo, AscendU
- **Notable:** Opened a 100,000-square-foot Sunnyvale facility in 2022, according to its corporate timeline., LabCheck reports 2,000+ customers and 20+ EMR integrations., Lists CDC ELITE participation/certification, environmental approvals and ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation; scopes and certificate dates require individual verification.

## Products & services

- **Clinical and dialysis testing** — Chemistry, hematology, immunochemistry, microbiology, infectious disease and renal-care testing.
- **CKD testing** — Creatinine, cystatin C, eGFR, urine albumin/protein and renal function panels.
- **LabCheck** — Hosted web-based test ordering, results, customized reports, regulatory documentation and HL7 interfaces.
- **LabCheckGo** — Mobile-friendly access to results and critical action-level alerts.
- **AscendU** — Online staff education, including English and Spanish training on labeling, shipping and water collection.
- **Healthcare water and dialysate testing** — Chemical and microbiological monitoring for dialysis and hospital water systems.
- **AAMI ST108 testing** — Water testing supporting medical device reprocessing programs.
- **Legionella testing** — Culture testing of water and surface swabs.
- **Endotoxin testing** — Testing for bacterial endotoxins in dialysis water, dialysate and critical healthcare water.

## Achievements

- Opened a 100,000-square-foot Sunnyvale facility in 2022, according to its corporate timeline.
- LabCheck reports 2,000+ customers and 20+ EMR integrations.
- Lists CDC ELITE participation/certification, environmental approvals and ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation; scopes and certificate dates require individual verification.
- Acquired by Eurofins in 2024 to expand its renal and transplant testing offering.

## Latest updates

- **2024-04** — Eurofins announced the acquisition on April 3; its half-year report places the acquisition in March. Patti Hunsader was named to become president.
- **2025-03** — Eurofins’ FY2024 results announcement reported Ascend mobile and web improvements that reduce rescheduling and relabeling work.

## Links

- Website: https://aclab.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ascend-clinical

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Last updated: 2026-10-23