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Designing consolidated labs
Consolidated labs can help decrease costs, improve efficiencies and lead to better patient care. Read the related article "Core concept"


An automated workflow and testing system will comprise two parallel, duplicate lines running 120 linear feet, enabling Northwell Health to process up to 20 million tests annually, around the clock.

Mayo Clinic’s new 70,000-square-foot clinical diagnostic testing laboratory in Rochester, Minn., primarily supports the Mayo Clinic practice.

Mayo Clinic has adopted a strategy in which physicians, hospitals and clinics must all send samples in aliquoted form so they can be more easily routed to different testing stations.

New York City Health + Hospitals Corp.’s agreement with Northwell to create its forthcoming mega core lab is being counted on to greatly improve efficiencies.

Northwell Health's (?) Center for Advanced Medicine's core lab is in one portion of a one million square foot building.