COLA Summit to Address Lab Staffing Shortages

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 5 – March 31, 2025 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: An upcoming gathering of COLA’s Workforce Action Alliance will focus on three staffing challenges: improving data needed to understand the current clinical laboratory workforce; promoting career paths for new professionals in the field; and identifying ways …

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Quest Acquires ‘Select Assets’ of Fresenius Medical Care

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 4 – March 10, 2025 Issue

FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AND QUEST DIAGNOSTICS AGREED TO A DEAL in which Quest will provide laboratory testing services for the latter’s dialysis clinics in the United States. Separately, Quest Diagnostics will acquire “select assets” of Spectra Labora…

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January 27, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 2 – January 27, 2025 Issue

On Jan. 16, 2025, Paul Mango died at the age of 65. With his passing, the profession of laboratory medicine lost an ally and a friend. In the mid-1990s, while at the Institute for Transfusion Medicine in Pittsburgh, Mango convinced the CEOs of 40 hospitals to collaborate and create t…

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Insights from Q3 2024 Earnings Calls Point to a More Robust Lab Market

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue

FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2024 (Q3 2024), both of the nation’s largest publicly traded laboratories—Labcorp…

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How Is COVID-19 Evolving? It’s Not Like Flu or Colds

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 11 – August 12, 2024 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It’s been 53 months since the SARS-CoV-2 virus triggered the worst global pandemic since 1918’s influenza pandemic. The coronavirus continues to surprise public health officials as new variants are detected, along with a multi-year pattern of summer surges in new cases. T…

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2022’s Top 10 Lab Stories Confirm Challenging Times

By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 – December 12, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: There are valuable insights to be gleaned from The Dark Report’s “Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2022.” Several of this year’s story picks involve external forces reshaping healthcare in the United States in profound ways. Other story picks for 2022 illustrate …

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Despite the Challenges, Labs Are Prevailing

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIX, No. 6 – April 25, 2022 Issue

EVENTS IN THE WORLD, THE UNITED STATE, AND THE U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM over the past two years have challenged clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups in unprecedented ways.  Stand back for a moment and consider what has unfolded since Jan. 1,…

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Lab Staffing Shortages Reaching Dire Levels

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 6 – April 25, 2022 Issue

This is an excerpt of a 1,423-word article in the April 4, 2022 issue of  THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Just weeks ago, CAP Today characterized the current lab staffing shortage as going “from simmer t…

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Decline in COVID-19 Test Orders Signals a Shift

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 5 – April 4, 2022 Issue

MIGHT THE FEDERAL HEALTHCARE ESTABLISHMENT BE CLOSE TO DECLARING AN END TO THE SARS-COV2 PANDEMIC and—given the ongoing decline in the daily number of new cases and deaths—that COVID-19 is expected to become an endemic disease?  The SARS-CoV-2 statis…

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California Agency Problems Deepened Valencia Branch Laboratory Saga

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 5 – April 4, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Adding a new twist in the ongoing saga of the CLIA compliance failures at the Valencia Branch Laboratory in California are insights from a former clinical laboratory director familiar with the industry in California. He observed that problems at California’s Laborator…

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