Website: https://aclapath.com/
Anatomic & Clinical Laboratory Associates, P.C. (ACLA) is a physician-owned pathology group founded in 1979 and based in Nashville, Tennessee. The group provides full anatomic and clinical pathology services, delivering diagnostic pathology to the hospitals of Ascension Saint Thomas Health and to numerous outpatient clinics and ambulatory surgery centers across Middle Tennessee. ACLA describes itself as “a pathology practice providing timely, high-quality, and accurate diagnostic medical services to the patients and physicians” of its health system and community.
Services
ACLA delivers anatomic pathology services, including cytology, surgical pathology, and frozen section services, to hospitals, regional independent ambulatory surgery centers, and physician offices. Its subspecialty areas include:
- Blood banking and transfusion medicine
- Hematopathology
- Cytopathology
- Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary pathology
- Gynecologic and breast pathology
- General surgical pathology
The group provides full anatomic and clinical pathology services through its team of board-certified pathologists with subspecialty training.
About
ACLA is a physician-owned pathology group founded in 1979. The practice employs 12 AP-CP board-certified pathologists with subspecialty boards and/or training across its areas of focus. ACLA serves as the pathology partner for Ascension Saint Thomas Health, described as the Middle Tennessee division of Ascension, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit hospital systems. The group’s mission centers on providing timely, high-quality, and accurate diagnostic medical services. Seven core values guide its operations: patient care, service, quality, integrity, professionalism, collaboration, and education.
Location & Contact
The headquarters of Anatomic & Clinical Laboratory Associates, P.C. is located at 2004 Hayes St., Suite LL 30, Nashville, TN 37203. The group can be reached by phone at (629) 203-7775, by fax at (615) 284-5750, and by email at [email protected]. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Additional Information
ACLA maintains a presence at three hospital locations in Middle Tennessee: Ascension St. Thomas Midtown Hospital in Nashville, Ascension St. Thomas West Hospital in Nashville, and Ascension St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro. The group is also involved in the local community, partnering with organizations including Project Access Nashville, Faith Family Clinic, Siloam Family Health Care, and LaPaz Clinic. Its services extend to outpatient clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, and physician offices throughout the region.
As a physician-owned group, ACLA is led and staffed by its pathologists rather than by an outside corporate owner. Its 12 AP-CP board-certified pathologists hold subspecialty boards and/or training across the group’s focus areas, allowing cases to be matched with pathologists experienced in the relevant discipline, whether blood banking and transfusion medicine, hematopathology, cytopathology, gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary pathology, gynecologic and breast pathology, or general surgical pathology. This subspecialty structure supports the group’s stated commitment to timely, high-quality, and accurate diagnostic services.
ACLA’s relationship with Ascension Saint Thomas Health places it within the Middle Tennessee division of Ascension, described on the site as one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit hospital systems. Beyond hospital settings, the group provides cytology, surgical pathology, and frozen section services to regional independent ambulatory surgery centers and physician offices, extending diagnostic pathology coverage across the broader Nashville and Murfreesboro area. Its seven core values of patient care, service, quality, integrity, professionalism, collaboration, and education are presented as the principles guiding this work. The group has operated in Nashville since its founding in 1979.
Profile compiled from the company’s official website (aclapath.com).