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Pathology Errors in Canada Make National News Once Again
YET ONE MORE TIME, pathology errors are making national headlines in Canada. News of errors by a surgeon and a pathologist in a Windsor, Ontario, hospital caught provincial health officials off balance. The simple story is that an experienced surgeon at 305-bed Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital …
New Cycle Begins for Lab and Pathology Acquisitions
THERE’S A NEW TRANSITION JUST GETTING STARTED in the laboratory testing industry. For the past two decades, laboratory acquisition activity has primarly centered around independent clinical laboratories—often owned by local pathologists. This was true in both the size of the transactions and in t…
2009’s Top Ten Lab Stories Reflect Some Good, Bad
CEO SUMMARY: As the closing year of the first decade of the new century and the new millennium, 2009 brought neither disruption nor upheaval to the majority of laboratories in the United States. Rather, it was marked by at least two themes. One was how public disclosure of problems with l…
Catholic Health Initiatives Ramps Up Lab Outreach
CEO SUMMARY: Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) wants to expand its presence in outpatient and outreach services. It sees hospital laboratory outreach programs as a key component of this strategy. It will use an equity investment in Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories (PAML) as the f…
PAML’s “Magic Touch” with Hospital Lab JVs
IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT THAT ONE OF THE TWO BLOOD BROTHERS inked a deal: 1) to set up a series of hospital laboratory joint ventures with a multi-billion health system that operated 50 to 100 hospitals in 15 to 20 states; and, 2) to be a primary source of esoteric and reference testing to all those hosp…
Catholic Health Initiatives Signs Pact with PAML
CEO SUMMARY: In concept, it is a simple deal. Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), the nation’s second largest Catholic health system, is taking a 25% equity position in Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories (PAML). However, the consequences may be significant. PAML now has a…
CBL Path, Plus Diagnostics, Alpha Innotech, DNA Direct, Humana
NEW PATHOLOGY LABS OPEN ON EAST COAST TIMES MUST BE GOOD for anatomic pathology companies—at least two companies have each announced the opening of a new laboratory facility. On the East Coast, it was CBL Path, Inc., of Rye Brook, New York, which expanded. On May 29, it a…
December 22, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Last Thursday, Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. of Tucson, Arizona, announced that it would purchase the “Outreach Advantage Solution” software system developed by Pathology Associates Medical Laborator ies of Spokane, Washington. PAML has spent most of this de…
Pathology Boot Camp to Address Three Trends
CEO SUMMARY: Anatomic pathology groups across the nation must develop effective strategies to address challenges in pricing, intensifying competition, and expensive new technologies. That’s the assertion of three pathology practice administrators who have organized a boot camp in Dallas…
War College 2008 Theme: Get Close to Customers!
CEO SUMMARY: Over the course of two days, pathologists, lab directors, and other laboratory professionals repeatedly heard speakers urge them to work hard to ensure that customers are the top priority for their laboratory organization. Another theme is the need for labs to organize their …
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