title: Hospital laboratory consolidation. Reduce costs, improve service, enhance the workplace.
abstract: Laboratory management faces a challenge to improve service and become more cost effective. For some, the need is for dramatic change. Implementing change in a proactive manner allows laboratory management to improve while protecting the important aspects of a laboratory's contribution to a hospital's programs and services. In this article, we describe how reorganization and consolidation of hospital clinical laboratories had the effect of reducing costs, improving service, and enhancing the workplace.
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Farwell
mesh_terms: D001900:Boston; D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006754:Hospital Restructuring; D006755:Hospital Shared Services; D006801:Humans; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017056:Medical Laboratory Personnel; D011590:Psychology, Industrial; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States