Operational and financial outcomes of shared laboratory services in a consolidated hospital system.
The clinical laboratories of three hospitals were consolidated under a single directorship. Improvements in available services and substantial true cost savings were achieved. These results illustrate the theoretically anticipated but rarely documented advantages of a shared-hospital services model of health care provision.
D003363:Cost Control; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006755:Hospital Shared Services / Q000191:economics*; D007753:Laboratories / Q000191:economics*; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009518:New York; D010337:Pathology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*