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June 1997

Where Are ā€œLaboratories Of The Future?ā€

At this yearā€™s Executive War College in New Orleans last May 20-21, there was plenty of talk about the radical changes laboratories are undergoing. But one question went unanswered: If laboratories must change, what should they look like after they change? Our Editor, Robert Michel, criss-crosses the country looking for laboratory models which represent the […]

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Future Laboratory Model Found In Oklahoma City

CEO SUMMARY: Even as commercial laboratories struggle to maintain financial solvency, Urocor displays phenomenal growth in specimen volume, market share and revenue during the last five years. It is no accident that this laboratory is succeeding. Urocorā€™s executives use sophisticated management techniques, with remarkable results. PROBABLY THE MOST SPECTACULAR success story in the clinical laboratory

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Management Philosophy Drives UroCorā€™s Success

CEO SUMMARY: In the year 1997, UroCor shows a financial strength and growth potential unlike most commercial laboratories. UroCorā€™s current success is a direct result of how UroCorā€™s management did things differently during the years from 1991 to the present. Much of UroCorā€™s success can be attributed to doing simple things better than the competition.

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Market Assessment Leads Quest To Do Several Deals

CEO SUMMARY: Quest CEO Ken Freeman is moving rapidly to restructure Questā€™s regional laboratory system. Using the financial head-start provided by the January spin-off from Corning, Inc., Quest purchased one laboratory and seeks to do joint venture deals in several cities. Questā€™s activities will change the competitive situation in cities affected by these developments. Competition

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President Of SmithKline Lab Unit Respected As ā€œTough Competitorā€

WITH troubles at Corning/Quest and LabCorp attracting publicity during the previous 18 months, few people observed a discreet but important change at SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL). John B. Okkerse, Jr., Ph.D. has quietly assumed full executive responsibilityĀ at the $1 billion company. Although Okkerse was promoted to President in 1995, Vickery Stoughton was the Chief

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Pap Smear Technologies Battle For Market Share

CEO SUMMARY: Cytyc, NeoPath and Neuromedical each tapped the public capital markets during the past 18 months. Now investors expect to see earnings growth and dividends as soon as possible. Clinical laboratories should expect intensified sales and marketing efforts from these three companies as they strive to increase sales. Probably the most ubiquitous sales representatives

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Shareholders Hugely Oversubscribe LabCorpā€™s $500 Million Offering

COMMERCIAL LABORATORIES may be regaining favor on Wall Street. Laboratory Corporation of Americaā€™s $500 million convertible stock offering not only sold out, but was over-subscribed by a huge amount. In addition to the 10 million convertible shares offered, subscription agreements and payments for an additional 3.98 million shares were tendered. Investor response to LabCorpā€™s offering

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“June 23, 1997 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Joint Venture Hospital Laboratory network (JVHL) of Detroit added a not her hospital system to its growing regional laboratory network. M-Labs, the laboratory division of the University of Michigan Health System, joined JVHL. This is the eighth hospital system laboratory division to be come an equity member of JVHL. ADD TOā€¦JVHL Jack Shaw, Executive Director

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Introducing The ā€œThree Blood Brothersā€

How many of you remember the ā€œSeven Sistersā€ or the ā€œBig Six?ā€ These were terms used by the business press and media to describe the seven major oil companies (Standard Oil, Gulf, Atlantic Richfield, Union Oil, Exxon, Shell and Mobil). The ā€œBig Sixā€ were the large certified public accounting companies, such as Arthur Anderson, Coopers

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National Labs Cut Costs Using Radical Strategies

CEO SUMMARY: All three national laboratories are dumping unprofitable accounts and unprofitable lines of testing. It ends the era when commercial labs ā€œgave awayā€ testing to any client willing to open an account. The three national laboratories are enacting stiffer requirements for new accounts. This significant trend will radically alter sales and pricing strategies for

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