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About Dynacare

Dynacare is one of Canada's largest and most respected providers of laboratory services and solutions, with more than 50 years of experience serving Canadians. We operate an integrated, state-of-the-art laboratory system that collects, transports and tests tens of thousands of specimens each day.

Our Operations

Headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Dynacare operates five laboratories in Ontario (Brampton, Bowmanville, London, Ottawa and Thunder Bay), two in Quebec (Saint-Laurent and Laval), Manitoba (Winnipeg) and Alberta (Edmonton). In addition, Dynacare operates more than 200 Laboratory and Health Services Centres in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Our Laboratory and Health Services Centres provide many services, including blood collection, urinalysis, ECG, Department of Transportation and allergy testing. Through a nation-wide mobile collection and transportation network, Dynacare offers coast-to-coast services to clients and the healthcare industry.
Dynacare's 2,400 employees perform more than 50 million tests each year, supporting patients, healthcare professionals and public and private sector clients with the laboratory services and critical information necessary for good health care and health-related decisions.

Our Clients and Services

Our clients include 10 million patients, more than 15,000 healthcare professionals (physicians, nurse practitioners, midwives and dentists), governments, regional health authorities, hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinical trial sponsors, employers and insurers.

Our community laboratory services support physicians and other healthcare professionals with specimen collection, transportation, testing and results reporting. In addition to physicians, our community laboratory services extend to community care access centres, community health centres and long-term care facilities.

Our clients also include more than 90 hospitals in eight provinces, as well as regional health authorities from British Columbia to Newfoundland.

As one of Canada’s leading providers of hospital reference testing, we offer our clients an expanded testing menu of thousands of individual assays. The range of services that Dynacare provides to hospitals also includes cytology, histology and parasitology support, as well as specialized testing in a number of areas, including allergy, infectious disease, cardiovascular disease and oncology.
Our employee health services include health and wellness screening programs, and employment-related drug testing for both regulated (US Department of Transportation – DOT) and non-regulated industries.

We work with pharmaceutical, biotechnology and contract research organizations to manage the laboratory components of drug and diagnostic clinical studies. Services range from creating the laboratory protocol and procedures manuals to designing the collection kits to final results data transfer.

Dynacare is the only Canadian-based company that provides full-service insurance screening, with an extensive menu of tests customized to meet the specific needs and reference ranges set by each of our life and health insurance company clients. MedAxio™ Insurance Medical Services, a division of Dynacare, is a leader in medical information collection services to the Canadian life insurance industry. MedAxio™ has more than 100 employees, utilizes over 1,000 mobile health care professionals across the country and performs approximately 250,000 examinations each year on behalf of a large number of life insurance companies

In 2011, Dynacare acquired Laval-based Warnex Medical Laboratories, a division of Warnex Inc., and renamed this division GD Specialized Diagnostics. GD Specialized Diagnostics provides specialized laboratory testing services to the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors. Its 7,500-square-foot laboratory in Laval services clients across Canada and provides specialized testing including: DNA-oriented tests for predisposition to cancer and other diseases, prenatal tests for Down syndrome, and the PCA3 test for prostate cancer – PCA3 is a non-invasive urine test that is more precise than other available screening tests for this disease.

Dynacare also acquired Warnex’s PRO-DNA Services division, now named Orchid PRO-DNA. Operating out of the same facility, Orchid PRO-DNA provides forensic DNA testing and DNA identification tests to determine paternity, maternity and other family relationships that can be used for legal or immigration purposes.

As one of the largest providers of laboratory testing services in Canada, Dynacare is at the forefront of researching, developing and validating innovative new screening and diagnostic tests for introduction into the Canadian marketplace. Our team of scientists has been instrumental in the early delivery of new tests in the areas of allergy, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, paternity, ulcers and other problems of the stomach and intestines, and more.

News Releases

May 22, 2025

Dynacare named one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for 2025
Nov 01, 2024

#Dynacare4Diabetes Returns with Free Diabetes Testing for Greater Toronto Area Residents
Apr 19, 2023

Dynacare Acquires Valley Medical Laboratories
Jan 21, 2021

Brampton Board of Trade Announces 2021 Business Person of the Year
Oct 23, 2020

Coming together to support our communities – 2020 Dynacare Community Outreach Program recipients
Oct 20, 2020

#Dynacare4Diabetes wellness initiative returns to support Manitobans’ health!
Oct 09, 2020

Dynacare Plus expands digital offerings with access to mental health therapy and virtual care
Sep 08, 2020

Saliva collection method from Dynacare is a new option to detect infection with COVID-19
Jun 03, 2020

Coming Together as a Community – A Message from Dynacare CEO Vito Ciciretto
Jan 14, 2020

Fostering a brighter future – Fall 2019 Dynacare Community Outreach Program recipients
Dec 13, 2019

Dynacare® joins SecureKey’s Verified.Me™ service to improve access to health information
Oct 18, 2019

#Dynacare4Diabetes - Manitoba's largest diabetes wellness initiative is back!
Sep 05, 2019

Dynacare Donates $25,000 to Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada
Jul 05, 2019

Grand Opening of New Dynacare Tottenham Location
Jun 12, 2019

Supporting strong communities – Spring 2019 Dynacare Community Outreach Program recipients
Apr 29, 2019

Dynacare Announces Vito Ciciretto as new CEO
Mar 20, 2019

Remembering Naseem Somani
Dec 03, 2018

Supporting communities through compassion – Fall 2018 Dynacare Community Outreach Program recipients
Oct 26, 2018

Diabetes wellness initiative in Manitoba
Jun 18, 2018

5 great charities, 1 amazing feeling – Dynacare’s spring 2018 Community Outreach Program recipients
Oct 16, 2017

Dynacare partners with Breakfast Club of Canada to help children reach their full potential
Sep 06, 2017

Dynacare Acquires Hooper-Holmes Canada Ltd.
Jul 26, 2017

New genomics project aims to prevent adverse drug reactions in children
Mar 30, 2017

Harmony Prenatal Test (NIPT), the proven option for safe, early, accurate prenatal testing
Jan 03, 2017

Dynacare cares for community with Community Outreach Program - 2016 in Review
Sep 27, 2016

Dynacare names Canadian Mental Health Association as 2016-2017 Lead Charity
Sep 12, 2016

Dynacare offers the PD-L1 Companion Diagnostic for Keytruda®, for the treatment of lung cancer
Jun 13, 2016

Dynacare Acquires Quality Underwriting Services Ltd.
Mar 11, 2016

Dynacare Selected by BC Prenatal Genetic Screening Program as Exclusive Provider for Funded NIPT.
Dec 09, 2015

Dynacare named one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for eighth consecutive year
Oct 01, 2015

Dynacare to provide collection services in Embrun and Russell
Sep 03, 2015

Dynacare Selected to Perform Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing in Ontario
Sep 02, 2015

Dynacare Selects Lymphoma Canada as 2015 Lead Charity
Jul 09, 2015

The 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games
Apr 30, 2015

Gamma-Dynacare Medical Laboratories Announces Rebranding to Dynacare
Dec 09, 2014

Gamma-Dynacare named one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for seventh consecutive year
Jan 16, 2014

Gamma-Dynacare Acquires Quebec-based Lab Bio-Medic
Nov 28, 2013

Gamma-Dynacare named one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for 2014
Oct 03, 2013

Gamma-Dynacare Announces Acquisition of Controlling Interest in Impact Genetics