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In New York, Lab Offers Mobile Virus Sample Collections
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVII No. 5 – March 30, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: To allow patients and physicians to order at-home specimen collections of the novel coronavirus, Northwell Labs trained its 12-member mobile phlebotomy service in the procedures needed to collect samples using nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs. Since training occurred in …
At the Epicenter, Northwell’s COVID-19 Lab Data Adds Value
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVII No. 5 – March 30, 2020 Issue
This is an excerpt of a 3,210-word article in the March 30, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: This intelligence briefing provides a valuable look inside a …
Drive-Up COVID-19 Test Site Launched in 3 Days
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVII No. 5 – March 30, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: After seeing the largest cluster of confirmed coronavirus infections in one location, New York State took emergency measures “to attack the hotspot at its source.” The state opened a drive-through specimen-collection site offering free testing without an appoi…
Lab at the Epicenter of NY’s Coronavirus Pandemic
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVII No. 5 – March 30, 2020 Issue
TODAY, THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC DOMINATES the daily activities of every clinical laboratory in the United States. The emergence of COVID-19 has triggered unprecedented actions by governments in different nations throughout the world. Within this country, all 50 states reported SARS-CoV-2 i…
COVID-19 Patient? Northwell Has Mobile Phlebotomy App
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVII No. 4 – March 9, 2020 Issue
>CEO SUMMARY: What better way to limit the spread of a deadly novel coronavirus than to allow patients who suspect they have the COVID-19 illness to use a mobile phone to book an appointment with a phlebotomist who makes house calls? Northwell Laboratories started this service in Novem…
Northwell Lab Team Validates COVID-19 Test on Fast Timeline
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVII No. 4 – March 9, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical labs are working with haste to test for the novel coronavirus, also called nCoV and SARS-CoV-2. Their efforts to prepare for high capacity testing for viral respiratory illness include validating molecular tests for the newly-identifie…
Northwell Health Labs Produce Value-Added Outcomes, Growth
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVII No. 3 – February 17, 2020 Issue
>CEO SUMMARY: In 2008, the administration at the Northwell Health system on Long Island considered selling its inpatient and outpatient laboratory services to a commercial laboratory company. In response, the leaders of the Northwell Health Laboratories proposed a plan to s…
Northwell and Memorial Health: A Tale of Two Labs
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVII No. 3 – February 17, 2020 Issue
Something very unusual happened in this issue of The Dark Report. We analyzed the entirely opposite fates of two clinical laboratories owned by different healthcare systems. With apologies to author Charles Dickens and his opening sentence in his novel, a Tale of Two Cities, it c…
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