Quest Diagnostics has unveiled a new, massive state-of-the-art laboratory in Massachusetts, which the company says will help modernize health care delivery. The 200,000-square-foot facility is located in Marlborough, Mass., about 30 miles west of Boston. It will consolidate operations of about a half-dozen smaller labs Quest is operating in both Massachusetts and Connecticut. It will also host a research and development center for new lab tests. It is the first R&D facility for Quest in the region and the third companywide. The lab is expected to be fully operational by the first half of 2015 and will employ 1,350 people in all, about 100 more than Quest had originally projected. The lab dovetails with Quest’s acquisition last year of the clinical outreach laboratory and anatomic pathology outreach laboratory business of the University of Massachussetts Memorial Medical Center. Quest said at the time of the deal it would consolidate the operations it had acquired into the Worcester facility, along with another lab it operates in Cambridge, Mass., as well as its Athena Diagnostics subsidiary. About a dozen physicians and faculty employed by UMass’s medical group and school of medicine will provide scientific leadership for several facets of testing at the Marlborough […]
Quest Diagnostics has unveiled a new, massive state-of-the-art laboratory in Massachusetts, which the company says will help modernize health care delivery.
The 200,000-square-foot facility is located in Marlborough, Mass., about 30 miles west of Boston. It will consolidate operations of about a half-dozen smaller labs Quest is operating in both Massachusetts and Connecticut. It will also host a research and development center for new lab tests. It is the first R&D facility for Quest in the region and the third companywide.
The lab is expected to be fully operational by the first half of 2015 and will employ 1,350 people in all, about 100 more than Quest had originally projected.
The lab dovetails with Quest’s acquisition last year of the clinical outreach laboratory and anatomic pathology outreach laboratory business of the University of Massachussetts Memorial Medical Center. Quest said at the time of the deal it would consolidate the operations it had acquired into the Worcester facility, along with another lab it operates in Cambridge, Mass., as well as its Athena Diagnostics subsidiary. About a dozen physicians and faculty employed by UMass’s medical group and school of medicine will provide scientific leadership for several facets of testing at the Marlborough lab.
“Our ‘lab of the future’ will set a new standard in diagnostic information services—not just for our company, but for our industry,” said Steve Rusckowski, Quest’s chief executive officer, in a statement. “It reflects a unique model for delivering innovative health services of the highest possible quality and value in order to create a healthier world.”
Siemens Healthcare and Inpeco won contracts to automate the laboratory. The facility includes an automation track that is about 650 feet long that will be able to process several thousand blood samples per hour. The terms of the pacts were not disclosed.
A Quest spokesperson did not respond to a request seeking comment on the new laboratory.
Takeaway: Quest is expanding and consolidating its laboratory and research and development facilities on the eastern seaboard of the United States.
