Baptist Medical Center/St. Vincent's merger.

Clin Lab Manage Rev

Baptist Medical Center, Baptist/St. Vincent Health System, Jacksonville, FL, USA.

Published: December 1996

Hospitals are merging at such a fast pace that there may be no freestanding hospitals in this country by the end of this century. The economics of the times are making it more and more difficult for hospitals to function alone. When hospitals merge, one of the clinical departments involved in integration is the clinical laboratory. This article discusses a merger involving five hospitals in Jacksonville, Florida and how it affected the separate hospital laboratories.

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