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West Hills Hospital Lab Hits Outreach Home Run
CEO SUMMARY: Popular wisdom says that California’s managed care market is a financial disaster for clinical laboratories. Yet here’s an exciting story about a community hospital that launched a brand-new laboratory outreach program in 1997 and found solid success. During the last two …
Outsourcing Lab Outreach Leads to Better Service
CEO SUMMARY: Many hospital laboratories continue to endure non-stop cutbacks to staffing and funding. The success of the recently instituted laboratory testing outreach program at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center validates that the market continues to reward labs willing to offer ad…
Ten Myths of Lab Management That Led the Clinical Lab Industry Astray
Part One of a Special Series CEO SUMMARY: One of our most popular series ever was the “13 Perilous Parallels” of laboratory management. This four-part story appeared in 1996 and chronicled similar management strategies used by various national laboratories during the…
“July 19, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
One of dermatopathology’s academic giants has been snared by a pathology PPM. A. Bernard Ackerman, M.D., will leave his professor post at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia to work with AmeriPath, Inc. and help it develop a dermatopathology center in New Yor…
AmeriPath, Cytyc, Unilab, Naiad
AMERIPATH INKS PACT WITH MEDAPHIS, BUYS FLORIDA PATH PRACTICE Things are busy at AmeriPath, Inc. of Riviera Beach, Florida. The pathology practice management company announced a number of accomplishments. First, it signed an agreement with Medaphis Corporation…
LabCorp Making Steady Progress On Path Back to Financial Health
MOST OF THE LAB INDUSTRY is watching the impending acquisition by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated of SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL). This big news overshadows the steady gains made at Laboratory Corporation of America in its efforts …
Labs Entering New Cycle Of Evolution and Change
CEO SUMMARY: As some of the nation’s most astute and forward-looking lab executives prepare to gather in New Orleans for the fourth annual EXECUTIVE WAR COLLEGE, it is time to share our assessment of the laboratory and pathology industry. Recent events presage another profound …
Unilab, DIANON Systems, UroCor Report 1998 Financial Results
OPTIMISM REIGNS at California-based Unilab Corporation. Revenues are up, operating profits are increasing, and company officials are now talking about growth plans. For 1998, Unilab generated revenues of $217.4 million, compared to $214.0 million in 1997. …
Movers & Shakers For ’99 Demonstrate Leadership
EACH YEAR IT BECOMES more difficult to make final selections for our annual Movers & Shakers awards. The reason is simple. Today there are more examples of leadership in the laboratory than when we first started these selections three years ago. This is a good omen. It means that the crucible of…
Sales & Marketing Is Critical To Success Of Labs & Pathologists
CEO SUMMARY: Careful study of the most successful lab oratories operating today reveals a common characteristic: the effective use of sale s and marketing methods to boost specimen volume, revenue, and operating profits. This is true whether it’s a hospital lab outreach program, a comme…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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