Successful community-based laboratory services program for long-term care facilities, Part 2

Hagerstown Medical Laboratory, Inc., located in Hagerstown, Maryland, has an outreach program that currently provides laboratory services to 52 long-term care facilities. Part 1 of this series, published in the May/June 2001 issue of Clinical Leadership & Management Review, discussed general organization, staffing, and safety issues for their Nursing Home Program. Part 2 relates their experience with contracts, fees, and reimbursement.