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Volume XIX No. 4 - March 12, 2012

Hospital’s Closing Is a Lab Industry Opportunity

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By

NEWS OF THE ORDER by the New York State Department of Health (DOH) to close Peninsula Hospital Center in Rockaway for at least 30 days because of deficiencies in the hospital laboratory is slowly filtering throughout the clinical laboratory industry. (See article here.) It was on February 23, 2012, when DOH issued an order for …

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Today’s Lab Test Model Won’t Survive Reforms

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By

CEO SUMMARY: For more than three decades, independent lab companies have waxed fat by increasing their respective market share of lab test referrals from office-based physicians. This era is poised to end as growing numbers of office-based physicians begin to practice medicine within an accountable care organization (ACO) or similar new integrated care delivery model, …

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NYSDOH Shuts Hospital Lab In Queens, New York

Laboratory Compliance / By

CEO SUMMARY: When the New York State Department of Health closed the laboratory at 173-bed Peninsula Hospital Center in New York City on February 23, it became national news. State inspectors issued a nine-page list of deficiencies in the lab, including problems that could affect patient safety. The result of the order was that all …

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QMS Helps Ontario Labs Cut Errors, Improve TAT

Lean Six Sigma / By

CEO SUMMARY: In Brampton and Etobicoke, Ontario, the hospital laboratories of William Osler Health System are using the quality management system of ISO 15189 to stay ahead of two powerful trends. Combining the QMS with Lean methods allows the labs’ management and staff to continuously improve performance in four important dimensions: decreasing turnaround times, reducing …

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Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp Report Q-4, Full Year Earnings

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By

IN RECENT WEEKS, each of the nation’s two largest public laboratory companies reported earnings for fourth quarter 2011 and full year 2011. Organic growth at both lab companies continues at low single-digit rates. This continues the pattern of relatively modest growth that has been posted by each of the two lab behemoths. On the other …

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March 12, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By

One of the nation’s more clever business models for hospital laboratories is co-tenancy. It is a proven way that lab administrators can reduce the cost of inpatient testing. It is for this reason that the Michigan Co-Tenancy Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan continues to grow. It announced that, during the past quarter, three hospital systems …

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