Laboratory Industry Report

A majority of hospitals are seeing a moderate or significant decline in their financial health versus last year, with over 40 percent of hospitals expecting to report losses in the first quarter of 2009, according to over 1,000 responses to a survey of American Hospital Association members taken earlier this year. But outreach hospital laboratory operations appear to be weathering the recession. Analysis of data from over 150 respondents to the 8th Annual National Outreach…