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 ...

Although the profit margin of hospital laboratories is usually slim to nonexistent, they could provide positive earnings if the right strategic decisions are made, according to research from business ...

Until now, a team of late-shift clinical technologists in the University of Alabama at Birmingham analyzed between 4,000 and 5,000 tubes of blood every night, providing information to help guide ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many hospitals are looking for new opportunities for revenue or ways to increase their access to capital in the current economic environment. Others are looking to reduce costs and improve ...

University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center today announced that Noel G. Janolino has been named the hospital’s new director of laboratory services. Janolino has over 20 years of experience ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 5—Word of Pauls Valley's hospital shutting down because its lab was closed is only partially true, according to the ...