The NIGHTHAWK PROTOCOL™ and NIGHTHAWK VERIFY™
We built an entirely new operational model: around-the-clock monitoring, temperature-monitored logistics, and a team that tracks every specimen from the moment it leaves a facility's door until results are delivered.
PROTOCOL™
Tracked All Night. Every Package. Every Time.
BDL's dedicated overnight team monitors 100% of shipments in real time. Every sample is accounted for hourly from the moment it leaves your facility through pickup, transit, and arrival at our laboratory.
If a shipment is delayed, rerouted, or shows any irregularity, the team intervenes immediately. No package is left unmonitored. No sample goes unaccounted for. This is not an alert system — it is a team of people watching every shipment, every night. Results are delivered the same day we receive the sample.
VERIFY™
The temperature of every specimen tracked from your facility to our lab. We know if it ever reached 77°F. and for how long.
Every specimen shipped to our lab includes a proprietary high technology sensor, the device behind NIGHTHAWK VERIFY™. This compact sensor is placed inside every specimen container and monitors temperature throughout transport. If the sample ever reaches 77°F, the sensor records the cumulative duration of all breaches, giving our laboratory team measurable, visual proof of exactly how long specimen integrity was compromised.
When the specimen arrives at our lab, we know before testing begins. No guesswork. No assumptions.
The Problem Nobody Was Solving
In 2020, homeless shelters and domestic violence shelters faced a nightmare scenario. Residents lived in close quarters. One contagious person could infect an entire facility in a matter of days. But the labs they depended on were taking three to four days to return COVID test results.
Three to four days of not knowing — and three to four days of potential spread. For shelters housing families fleeing abuse, or individuals with nowhere else to go, that wait was not just an inconvenience. It was a public health crisis inside a public health crisis.
One Call Changed Everything
BDL approached the CEO of Catholic Charities headquarters in Washington, D.C. with a simple proposition: we can deliver COVID test results to your shelters the same day we receive the specimen, anywhere in the country. There will be no charge to any facility for anything. The CEO endorsed BDL to every Catholic Charities location.
The results were dramatic. Shelters that had been waiting days for answers were now getting them the same day we received the specimens. Facility administrators could isolate contagious individuals before the virus spread. They could protect their residents. They could make decisions based on data instead of hope.
BDL Today
BDL is a CLIA-certified high-complexity laboratory with 11+ years of continuous certification. We specialize in Wound Care PCR, Respiratory PCR, and Infectious Disease panels, serving Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs), acute care hospitals, wound care clinics, and healthcare providers. BDL serves healthcare facilities across America.
Our clients today are healthcare facilities that depend on fast, accurate pathogen identification to make treatment decisions. The NIGHTHAWK PROTOCOL™ and NIGHTHAWK VERIFY™ give them results the same day the specimen is received, with complete sample integrity from door to door.
Why It Matters
BDL created the NIGHTHAWK PROTOCOL™ during a crisis and we have now refined it for use every day for every client. Most labs treated speed as a luxury. BDL treated it as a lifeline. When vulnerable people needed results to stay safe, BDL delivered. When the funding disappeared, BDL stayed.
That is who we are. That is how the NIGHTHAWK PROTOCOL™ and NIGHTHAWK VERIFY™ were created. And that is the standard we bring to every facility we serve today.