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laboratory consolidation
Québec’s Laboratory Consolidation Plan Aims to Save $13.5M
CEO SUMMARY: In the Province of Québec, an ambitious project is under-way to consolidate the clinical laboratory testing of 123 laboratories into 11 centralized lab clusters. It is one of the largest lab consolidation projects nowhappening in the world. Among the goals of this project is…
Pathologists Benefit from Hospital Lab Consulting
CEO SUMMARY: Deteriorating finances at many rural hospitals and smaller community hospitals is a growing trend. It is also a new consulting opportunity for local pathologists because financially-strapped hospitals often give their labs inadequate working capital and lack the staff needed …
Louisiana Pathologists ‘Moonlight’ as Consultants
CEO SUMMARY: Few independent pathology groups have developed robust laboratory consulting businesses. But adopting that strategy has brought important benefits to Delta Pathology Group, LLC, of Shreveport, Louisiana. Not only has providing lab consulting services to cash-strapped hospital…
Sonic Healthcare Acquires Labs from Aussie Competitor
LABORATORY CONSOLIDATION continues in Australia with news that Sonic Healthcare Limited of Sydney, Australia, has agreed to acquire three clinical laboratory business units from competitor Healthscope, Ltd., of Melbourne, Australia. The acquisition was announced on …
Irish Labs Are at an Important Crossroads
GLOBAL OUTSOURCING OF CLINICAL LABORATORY TESTING IN IRELAND has entered its second phase. The Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) granted Quest Diagnostics Incorporated a contract for an additional two-years of cervical cancer screening tests while…
New Lab Company Is Launched By Geisinger Health System
WITH A SIMPLE ANNOUNCEMENT last month, Geisinger Health System of Danville, Pennsylvania, launched a new laboratory outreach company, called Proven Diagnostics. From a facility located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Proven Diagnostics intends to compete for lab testing…
Lab Trends In Canada Run Ahead of U.S.A.
CEO SUMMARY: In specific ways, laboratories in Canada are already confronting the future that awaits laboratories in the United States. Many of the challenges are identical, including shrinking reimbursement and funding, as well as a shortage of skilled lab staff. One unfolding developmen…
November 6, 2006 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
There’s regulatory relief for California labs in the important area of technical staff licensing. California’s Department of Health Services (DHS) has approved the Board of Registry medical technologist (MT) examination administered by the American Society of Clinical Pat…
New Lab Company to Buy Westcliff, Health Line
CEO SUMMARY: In Southern California, no one’s talking for the record, but everyone’s talking about the impending acquisition of Westcliff Medical Laboratories and Health Line Clinical Laboratories by a new laboratory company. The deals are expected to close by the end of this month. T…
Sonic HealthCare In US: How Will Market Change?
CEO SUMMARY: LabOne, Inc.’s acquisition by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, announced in early August, removes, as a competitor, a lab company that was growing and beginning to credibly challenge the two blood brothers. Just weeks later, Sonic Healthcare Ltd.’s purchase of Clinical Pat…
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023
Readers will uncover a theme of mergers and consolidations running throughout this issue of The Dark Report. Case in point is our story about the pending merger between Sanford Health and Fairview Health Services. If the deal goes through, the new system will have 58 hospitals across five states. The Dark Report also notes revenues from Labcorp’s acquisition of Ascension Health, and reports on the creation of a major MT training center in Utah.
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