Hartford HealthCare wants to terminate 12 outpatient lab sites, transfer them to Quest
The Hospital of Central Connecticut, which has campuses in Southington and New Britain, and The William Backus Hospital in Norwich are seeking to terminate services at 12 laboratory outreach locations and transfer the sites’ operations to Quest Diagnostics through a purchase agreement.
The hospitals, part of Hartford HealthCare (HHC), offer blood drawing and urine sample collections at the 12 locations, after which specimens are sent to a laboratory for testing.
The move, detailed in Certificate of Need applications filed with the state last week, is part of HHC’s exit from operating laboratory outreach locations and follows Quest’s acquisition last year of the outreach lab service business of Clinical Laboratory Partners, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HHC.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut and Backus proposals for the 12 sites are not part of Clinical Laboratory Partners.
Hartford HealthCare and New Jersey-based Quest are in the early stages of the transaction, according to HHC spokesman Shawn Mawhiney. If the deal is completed, and pending state approval, HHC expects the transaction to close late this year, he said. With transfer of the 12 sites, HHC will no longer operate outreach laboratory locations.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut and Backus seek the locations’ transfer “to focus on core strengths and services and shed those that can be performed better and more efficiently by other parties, such as Quest Diagnostics,” the applications say. Quest operates dozens of laboratories and more than 2,200 laboratory outreach locations and serves half the doctors and hospitals in the U.S., the applications say.
Any of the locations that can’t transfer to Quest will be closed. The proposals for the sites’ transfer does not include the Hospital of Central Connecticut’s or Backus’ actual laboratories, only the 12 outreach specimen collection stations, and “does not impact, affect, limit reduce and/or terminate any of the laboratory testing services” offered by the hospitals and/or provided to their patients, the applications say.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut sites proposed to be transferred are: 100 Grand St., 61 Hart St., and 183 N. Mountain Road in New Britain; and 360-1 N. Main St. and 55 Meriden Ave. in Southington. The sites had almost 75,000 total patient visits in fiscal 2016.
Backus sites are: 111 Salem Turnpike, 333 Washington St. and 55 Town St., in Norwich; 582 Norwich Road, Plainfield; 163 Broadway, Colchester; 80 Norwich New London Turnpike, Uncasville; and 70 Main St., Jewett City. The sites had almost 96,000 patient visits in fiscal 2016.
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