Hospital laboratory consolidation. Reduce costs, improve service, enhance the workplace

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.