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Quest Diagnostics Opens the New Year by Acquiring S.E.D. Laboratories

In the first significant clinical laboratory acquisition of 2012, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX) acquired S.E.D. Medical Laboratories of Albuquerque, New Mexico, from Lovelace Health System. The transaction was announced on January 3, 2012, and the sale was completed just days later, on January 7.

Along with acquiring a 50,000 square foot lab facility in Albuquerque, Quest Diagnostics picks up nine patient service centers (PSCs) in Albuquerque and Rio Rancho, plus six additional PSCs throughout the state. S.E.D. Medical Labs employees 450 people and performs about 7.5 million tests per year.

Quest Diagnostics Will Manage Four Inpatient Clinical Laboratories

One interesting aspect to the sale is the fact that Quest Diagnostics will manage the inpatient laboratories at four hospitals owned by Lovelace Health System. It will also provide medical laboratory testing services to members of the Lovelace Health Plan. (more…)

Revisiting September 1999: Big Lab News Was AML’s Merger with APL

It was The Dark Report’s headline story ten years ago this month!

Introducing a new feature: Ten Years Ago in The Dark Report
To give Dark Daily readers better context about unfolding events in the laboratory industry, we are pleased to introduce this feature which will appear regularly. Each month, we will dive into our archives and share with you the key events of ten years ago, along with an update to those companies and laboratory executives.

American Medical Labs Merges with Associated Pathologists Lab in 1999

In its September 20, 1999 issue, The Dark Report disclosed that Las Vegas-based Associated Pathologists Laboratories (APL) would be merging with American Medical Laboratories (AML) of Chantilly, Virginia. This bi-coastal merger created the third largest commercial laboratory organization in the United States.

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