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Last summer, Decatur Memorial Hospital (DMH), a 340-bed community hospital in central Illinois, opened their molecular diagnostic laboratory. Recognizing that the industry is headed in this direction, they wanted to get in on the ground floor. "Basically our pathologist was driving this," says John Little, laboratory administrative director. "He felt that molecular was going to be a large entity in the laboratory in general, the up-and-coming thing. His thought was we’d rather get in now at the ground level and start getting experience, start doing some testing and preparing for the future, getting staff trained and interested."

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April 2007 - Table of Contents

LIR April 2007 (full PDF issue)

Financial Benchmarks at 10 Major Labs: Quest and LabCorp See Gains in Revenue and Profit Per Billable Test

Aetna’s Lab Is Quest, LabCorp Takes a Hit

Kennedy to Fast Track New Bill to Regulate Lab Tests

Decatur Memorial Hospital Laboratory Enters the Molecular World

Benchmarking the Major Labs

Genova Diagnostics Buys Texas Reference Lab

Beckman Coulter to Buy Biosite for $1.55 billion

CMS Continues Rolling Out Medically Unlikely Edits

MDS Completes $615M Purchase of Molecular Devices

Lab Stocks Rise 3% Led by Orchid and Clarient

Biggest Challenges for AP Practices