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Consider Tenet-SBCL Deal As Timely Wake-Up Call
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 1 – January 19, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Expect the Tenet-SBCL contract announcement to trigger similar deals during the next 18 months. Competition and the need to gain economic advantage will drive some hospital CEOs to turn their laboratories over to commercial laboratory partners. The number of such joint ventur…
Regional Growth Strategy Guides Presbyterian Labs Services
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume IV No. 16 – November 17, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s a consolidated laboratory organization serving six hospitals and an extensive outreach program. As described in the first installment of this two-p art series, Presbyterian Laboratory Services actively reshaped itself into a well-run asset for its parent healthcare s…
Consolidation At Presbyterian Encourages Regional Strategy
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 15 – October 27, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Presbyterian Laboratory Services represents one of the more advanced business models of laboratory consolidation found today in the United States. Owned by an integrated delivery system, the laboratory division serves six hospitals and a variety of outreach clients. Several e…
Providing Direction Leads To Happier Docs, Lower Costs, And Outreach Success
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 13 – September 15, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Some of the best stories in laboratory management are found in the unlikeliest of places. In this case we travel to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, where a 120 bed rural hospital has developed an energized laboratory team. It wasn’t easy and it didn’t happen qu…
“September 15, 1997 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 13 – September 15, 1997 Issue
Here’s another sign of financial improvement in the clinical laboratory industry. WDI Capital Markets publishes a quarterly list of healthcare industry earnings. Through 1995, “laboratory services” was always included. But consistently disastrous results in the laboratory indus…
Regional Lab Systems Beginning To Emerge
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 7 – May 12, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Regionalization of laboratory services is about to become a dominant industry trend. Four groups of players will drive this process and each needs to recruit hospital laboratories to participate in their regional model. This is the first generation of attempts to create finan…
New Hybrid Lab Systems Provide Peek At Future
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 7 – May 12, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As the first generation of regional laboratory systems begin operation, the marketplace is about to separate winners from losers. Stakes are high for hospital laboratory administrators. If they choose to affiliate with the wrong model, the consequences can cause extended disr…
Second War College Set For New Orleans In May
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 3 – February 17, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory consolidation and networking activity continues to intensify. This year’s War College faculty features exceptional stories about what works and what doesn’t. New Orleans is the place to be on May 20-21 for proactive laboratory administrators and p…
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