Hospital labs perform a critical function that guides clinical decision-making and impacts patient outcomes — and there is growing pressure for health system leaders to expand labs’ orbit of influence ...

The laboratory sits at a unique position in a patient’s diagnostic journey. The information that’s generated from a laboratory test is the critical link between a patient with a medical question and a ...

The laboratory often lies at the beginning of a patient’s diagnostic journey, providing important information needed for physicians to make accurate clinical decisions. These insights put patients on ...

This story was originally published on Oct 1, 2015, as part of the "Hidden Errors" project. The Cleveland Clinic has demoted a laboratory director, closed part of a testing lab and is facing hundreds ...

Reesha Ahmed was on cloud nine. It was January and Ahmed was at an OB-GYN’s office near her home in Venus, Texas, for her first prenatal checkup. After an ultrasound, getting anti-nausea medication, ...

A hospital, a laboratory, three lab employees, a referring physician and his office manager will collectively pay more than $7.2 million to settle allegations that they defrauded government healthcare ...

Keefe Memorial, a critical access hospital in Cheyenne Wells, has partnered with a company to bring innovation to longstanding economic challenges ...

No matter what we look like on the outside, we are all roughly the same shade of red under the skin. That observation was prompted by a visit to the walk-in storage cooler inside the Blood Bank in UAB ...

Campbellford Memorial Hospital officials are reporting consistently timely laboratory test results for patients.

Jan. 5—Word of Pauls Valley's hospital shutting down because its lab was closed is only partially true, according to the facility's top administrator. Owner and acting CEO Madhukar Sharma confirms the ...

Until now, if you or a family member living in the Northern Westchester Hospital community had a heart attack and called 911, chances are you’d be taken to Danbury Hospital or Stamford Hospital in ...