SECAUCUS, N.J. and NUTLEY, N.J., Dec. 22,
2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Hackensack Meridian Health
(HMH), the largest, most comprehensive and truly integrated health
care network in New Jersey, and
Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of
diagnostic information services, are teaming up to enhance the
quality and value of diagnostic services to patients and their
doctors.
Quest Diagnostics will manage laboratory operations and perform
reference testing for 11 Hackensack Meridian Health
hospitals under the long-term full laboratory management agreement.
Financial terms of the arrangement were not disclosed.
"Our partnership with Quest helps Hackensack Meridian Health
continue to live our mission which is to transform health care in
New Jersey and beyond,'' said
Robert C. Garrett, CEO of Hackensack
Meridian Health. "By working with Quest, a leader in
diagnostic testing and information services, our network will
continue to deliver the high-quality, convenient and accessible
health care our communities expect. Our partnership with
Quest proved invaluable during this pandemic in assuring quick and
accurate test results for our patients and team members.''
Quest will utilize its New
Jersey testing infrastructure by moving non time-sensitive
testing from medical centers within the HMH system to its
laboratory in Teterboro, and its
new flagship laboratory in Clifton
in 2021. The 250,000 square-foot Clifton laboratory will be co-located on the
ON3 campus along with the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine.
"We are pleased to partner with Hackensack Meridian Health, a
nationally renowned health system with a keen focus on providing
high-quality care, and we welcome the team members who will be
joining Quest on January 1,"
said Quest Diagnostics Chairman, CEO and President
Steve Rusckowski. "Being co-located
with the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine provides many
opportunities to collaborate and improve patient outcomes. This is
our largest professional laboratory services agreement to date, and
we look forward to serving our new partner and neighbor."
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 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.
www.QuestDiagnostics.com.
ABOUT HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH
Hackensack Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit
health care organization that is the largest, most comprehensive
and truly integrated health care network in New Jersey, offering a complete range of
medical services, innovative research and life-enhancing care.
Hackensack Meridian Health comprises 17 hospitals from
Bergen to Ocean counties, which includes three academic
medical centers – Hackensack University Medical Center in
Hackensack, Jersey Shore
University Medical Center in Neptune, JFK Medical Center in Edison; two children's hospitals - Joseph M.
Sanzari Children's Hospital in Hackensack, K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital
in Neptune; nine community
hospitals – Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, Mountainside Medical Center in
Montclair, Ocean Medical Center in
Brick, Palisades Medical Center in North
Bergen, Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood, Raritan Bay Medical Center in
Old Bridge, Raritan Bay Medical
Center in Perth Amboy, Riverview
Medical Center in Red Bank, and
Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin; a behavioral health hospital –
Carrier Clinic in Belle Mead; and
two rehabilitation hospitals - JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute
in Edison and Shore Rehabilitation
Institute in Brick.
Additionally, the network has more than 500 patient care
locations throughout the state which include ambulatory care
centers, surgery centers, home health services, long-term care and
assisted living communities, ambulance services, lifesaving air
medical transportation, fitness and wellness centers,
rehabilitation centers, urgent care centers and physician practice
locations. Hackensack Meridian Health has more than 36,000
team members, and over 7,000 physicians and is a distinguished
leader in health care philanthropy, committed to the health and
well-being of the communities it serves.
The network's notable distinctions include having four hospitals
among the top in New Jersey by
U.S. News and World Report. Other honors include
consistently achieving Magnet® recognition for nursing excellence
from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and being named to
Becker's Healthcare's "150 Top Places to Work in
Healthcare/2019" list.
The Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine opened in 2018, the
first private medical school in New
Jersey in more than 50 years, welcomed its third class of
students in 2020 to its On3 campus in Nutley and Clifton. Additionally, the network partnered
with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to find more cures for
cancer faster while ensuring that patients have access to the
highest quality, most individualized cancer care when and where
they need it.
Hackensack Meridian Health is a member of AllSpire Health
Partners, an interstate consortium of leading health systems, to
focus on the sharing of best practices in clinical care and
achieving efficiencies.
For additional information, please visit
www.HackensackMeridianHealth.org.
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