Seattle Children’s is now processing all COVID-19 tests in-house. Turnaround times are as follows:

  • If your patient uses the Sand Point Learning Center drive-through testing site, you will receive same-day results.
  • If your patient uses a regional urgent care clinic, you will receive results the same day or by 10 a.m. the next day. Samples that do not make same-day runs in microbiology will be on the 6 a.m. run the following day. (The last run of each day is at 6 p.m.)

As a reminder, we will send test results only to the referring provider, not to patient families directly (except for tests ordered by Seattle Children’s). Find more details about our community testing on our COVID-19 testing page.

COVID-19 Testing Update as of Tuesday, June 2: we have tested 4,224 patients, with 39 positive and 9 inconclusive, for an overall positivity rate of 1.1%.

Our Provider FAQs on COVID-19 are available here.