Licensing and Accreditation

The Newborn Screening Ontario (NSO) laboratory operates under license #4282 and is the only laboratory in the province of Ontario authorized to perform newborn screening tests as outlined in Section 4 of the Laboratory and Specimen Collection Centre Licensing Act. These tests are subject to the specific quality criteria outlined by the Institute for Quality Management in Healthcare. NSO is also recognized as an ISO 15189PLUS accredited facility.

Please click on the links below to access copies of the relevant documents:

Laboratory License

IQMH Certificate of Accreditation  22-2026

Diagnostic testing: 

Laboratory License 2016 (Mitochondrial disorders)

Laboratory License 2016 (Targets of Newborn Screening)

Contact Us

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
415 Smyth Road
Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M8

Toll-Free: 1-877-627-8330
Local: (613) 738-3222
Fax: (613) 738-0853