title: Consolidated lab serves multihospital system.
abstract: By consolidating eight hospitals into five, centralizing and networking laboratory services, and creating a single-structure medical staff, HealthEast multihospital system in St. Paul, Minn., has captured 50 percent of the city's primary care admissions, increased lab volume by 6 percent and saved 15 percent in full-time equivalents.
authors: Health East/St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Paul, MN.
authors: G K
authors: GK
authors: French
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D004526:Efficiency; D006755:Hospital Shared Services; D007256:Information Systems; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008910:Minnesota; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*