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laboratory consolidation
Hospital Mergers Down For Fourth Straight Year
CEO SUMMARY: Changes in hospital ownership often drive laboratory restructuring projects. But hospital merger and acquisition activity has declined for four consecutive years. Consequently, comprehensive laboratory restructuring efforts have declined in parallel. Hospital M&A numbers …
Labs In United Kingdom Study U.S., Canadian Labs
CEO SUMMARY: It was a groundbreaking first for both sides of the Atlantic. Senior pathologists and laboratory directors in the United Kingdom spent two days learning from their North American counterparts about the challenges and difficulties in laboratory consolidation and regionalizatio…
“January 20, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
December proved to be an eventful month for many companies in the lab industry. Here’s some key items of interest, many to be followed in more detail in coming issues of THE DARK REPORT: •AmeriPath, Inc. is to be sold to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a privat…
Several Major Surprises Mark Events of 2002
CEO SUMMARY: It was a year when the two blood brothers got much bigger and expanded market share by buying their largest competitors. With patient safety as the goal, employers began active steps to force hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers to use quality management syst…
United Kingdom Soon to Tackle Consolidation of Hospital Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Consolidation and regionalization of hospital laboratory testing are not isolated phenomenons. Beginning in the late 1980s, individual provinces in Canada began to rationalize lab testing services by building core labs and consolidating lab services across multiple hospitals….
More Consolidation: Quest Acquires AML
CEO SUMMARY: In December, American Medical Laboratories, Inc. (AML) was preparing a second attempt to raise capital through an initial public offering (IPO). But a tempting purchase offer by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated led to a decision by AML’s owners to sell the company. This trans…
Largest Hospital Lab JV Making Steady Progress
CEO SUMMARY: It’s a daunting task to rationalize and integrate lab testing services among 21 hospitals spread out between Eastern Wisconsin and the south side of Chicago. Since the joint venture was announced April 2000, management initiatives have generated lower costs. But the number …
British Firm Acquires Sunquest Info Systems
CEO SUMMARY: Sunquest Information Systems was recently acquired by Misys Plc, a software company based in the United Kingdom. The transaction is another example of consolidation within the healthcare software sector. It also demonstrates that software products developed in the United Stat…
Number of Hospital Deals Declines Again in 2000
CEO SUMMARY: Probably the single biggest contributing factor to consolidation of hospital laboratories is when new owners or new healthcare systems take control of a hospital. For 2000, merger and acquisition activity in the hospital industry declined in 2000 by 40%. A total of 318 hospit…
Competitive Dynamics In the Laboratory Testing Marketplace
This section of the White Paper deals with the marketplace for laboratory services. For brevity and clarity, I will address five components: 1) independent commercial laboratories; 2) hospital-based laboratories; 3) esoteric, reference, and specialty testing laboratories; 4) anatomic pathology lab- o…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
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