Celerion is a pharmaceutical healthy/non study site with studies rolling 365 days a year. There is always going something down.
This review is for their Phoenix location, but they also have another location in Lincoln Nebraska.
Pros:
Pay can be decent, but otherwise demanding Vis a Vis length of stays. Some studies require the whole year.
Staff are usually amicable.
The facility is spacious and nice.
There are general areas situated in the dining hall where you can do a lot of work between procedures if you're moonlighting another job.
Participants are usually friendly. Many speak Spanish , so if you speak it, you'll fit in quite well.
Cons: usually screening visits encompass two separate days (that might be a week apart) : bloodwork and physical. Very rarely do they occur on the same day, but sometimes they do -- those are the studies you want if you're out of town!
Competitive phone call: even if you pass your screening and physical, you still have one more task: to call in at a designated time slot. Call exactly at your designated time and prepare to have multiple phones, so you can have a greater chance of getting through the rush.
Many studies require multiple returns which eats away at your time and profit.
A lot of blood collections. They generally don't use catheters. Prepare your veins for discomfort and assault.
They take in many backups. Such that if you're out of town it becomes not worth it even if you're accepted. In one study they took in a total of 80 participants to keep twenty.
Sleeping quarters can shift everyday from bunk beds to the injection site area. You're gonna wanna bring a sleeping mask as in the test site area as there is an emergency light that is always on.
Some of the studies you're required to eat everything in your meal. If you cannot, you will be promptly ejected from the study.
Food is generally not of the greatest quality even when compared to hospital food (with few exceptions).