CEO SUMMARY: Expect the Tenet-SBCL contract announcement to trigger similar deals during the next 18 months. Competition and the need to gain economic advantage will drive some hospital CEOs to turn their laboratories over to commercial laboratory partners. The number of such joint ventures and contract management projects will increase rapidly. BY ALL MEASURES, the […]
Consider Tenet-SBCL Deal As Timely Wake-Up Call
Market forces continue to work against those lab directors hoping to preserve the status quo
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume V No. 1 - January 19, 1998 Issue
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