SECAUCUS,
N.J. and INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 3,
2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Diagnostics (NYSE:
DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information
services, today announced that it has completed its previously
announced acquisition of its joint venture partners' interests in
Mid America Clinical Laboratories ("MACL").
Quest now wholly owns MACL's laboratory
in Indianapolis and approximately 50 patient service
centers across Indiana. Quest also now provides professional
lab management services for about 30 hospitals owned and operated
by Community Health Network and Ascension St. Vincent in
Indiana. Community Health Network
and Ascension St. Vincent are formerly joint venture partners in
MACL. In addition, AmeriPath, the specialty pathology business of
Quest Diagnostics, will continue to provide services to these
hospitals and broadly across Indiana.
With the completed transaction, patients and providers in
Indiana now have direct access to
a broader menu of innovative clinical laboratory and pathology
services to patients and providers in Indiana.
About Quest Diagnostics
Quest Diagnostics empowers
people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the
world's largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic
insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire
healthy behaviors and improve health care management. Quest
Diagnostics annually serves one in three adult Americans and half
the physicians and hospitals in the
United States, and our 47,000 employees understand that, in
the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights
can inspire actions that transform lives.
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