Ashley Garcia Romero
Co-Founder
Medical Doctor Graduate · RMA · Nursing Background · Clinical Operations
Who we are
Healthcare expertise, brought closer to the patient.
AUREA is a mobile phlebotomy and specimen collection company being developed for the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded by healthcare professionals, we are building a thoughtful, reliable approach to bringing specimen collection to patients in a convenient location.
Our focus: professional collection, careful specimen preparation, and coordinated delivery to the receiving laboratory.
Golden.
AUREA means “golden.” Inspired by the warmth and light of the Caribbean and rooted in our Puerto Rican and Salvadoran heritage, AUREA represents care delivered with precision, warmth, and purpose. What begins with mobile phlebotomy is built with a larger vision: bringing quality healthcare closer to the people who need it.
What we’re building
A more convenient path to completing ordered laboratory work.
With a valid laboratory order, patients will be able to have specimens collected at home, at work, or another appropriate location—then prepared and delivered according to the receiving laboratory’s requirements.
AUREA’s role is specimen collection, preparation, handling, and transport. Laboratory testing and results remain the responsibility of the receiving laboratory.
How AUREA works
From valid order to receiving laboratory.
- Valid Order
- Mobile Collection
- Specimen Preparation
- Laboratory Delivery
- Laboratory ProcessingCompleted by the receiving laboratory
Building healthcare partnerships
Who we want to connect with.
Physicians
Medical Practices
Home Health
Laboratories
Healthcare Organizations
Meet the founders
A multidisciplinary healthcare team.
Experience across medicine, advanced practice, nursing, public health, clinical operations, and healthcare administration.
Johanna Romero Díaz
Co-Founder
Project Management · Medical Billing & Coding · Healthcare Administration
Elizabeth Rivera, PA-C, MPH, MA
Co-Founder
Board-Certified Physician Assistant · Medical Doctor Graduate · Public Health & Clinical Leadership
Coming soonPhoenix, Arizona
Connect with AUREA
Let’s start a conversation.
We welcome conversations with healthcare professionals, organizations, and business partners interested in expanding access to convenient specimen collection across the Valley.
- Phone
- 602-662-0359
- Availability
- Pre-launch conversations