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Volume XIV No. 9 - June 25, 2007

Recognizing Laboratory Leadership

WHEN LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA CLOSES ON THE SALE and becomes the owner of DSI Laboratories, Inc., of Fort Meyers, Florida, it will mark the end of one of the nation’s oldest hospital laboratory outreach programs. I consider this to be a good news/bad news story. The good news is that DSI’s owner, NCH Healthcare …

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LabCorp Buys Hospital Outreach Lab in Florida

CEO SUMMARY: Once again, a national laboratory has seized the opportunity to acquire a strong regional laboratory. This time it’s the sale of DSI Laboratories, Inc., of Naples, Florida, to Laboratory Corporation of America. DSI’s owner is NCH Healthcare System, which owns two hospitals in Naples. Terms of the deal were not revealed. LabCorp will …

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DSI Sale Shows Value of Lab Outreach Program

CEO SUMMARY: For other hospital laboratory outreach programs, the pending sale of DSI Laboratories, Inc., of Fort Meyers, Florida, to Laboratory Corporation of America provides useful insights about the market value of these programs. Applying general formulas for determining a sales price, DSI Labs’ $40 million in yearly revenue may have fetched between $40 and …

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$18 Million Judgment for Errors by Laboratory

CEO SUMMARY: In a wrongful birth lawsuit, a high-risk pregnancy physician in New Jersey requested a cytogenetics test on a pregnant mother, but LabCorp’s cytogenetics lab never did the test. After the baby was born with myotubular myopathy—the same deformity the mother had sought to prevent—she sued and won a jury verdict in her favor …

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Global Laboratory Trends Dominated by Rising Costs and Labor Shortage

“The Web has transformed many industries and it’s clearly affected our industry. This trend will help raise the bar in quality and overall performance among laboratories and manufacturers.” —Jim Reid-Anderson Chairman, President, and CEO of Dade Behring CEO Summary: Recently, THE DARK REPORT conducted a roundtable interview with executives of Dade Behring. Present were Jim …

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June 25, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

It should be boom time for companies selling Clinical Information Systems (CIS). A research report from Millennium Research Group (MRG) of Waltham, Massachusetts, predicts that patient safety programs will fuel a demand by health systems for CIS products. The report, “U.S. Markets for Acute Care Clinical Information Systems,” says hospitals are adopting CIS to help …

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