Fredericksburg, Va. – (Oct. 19, 2017) –

Laboratories are constantly under pressure to produce faster, higher-quality results, even under increased demands. To help alleviate the problem locally, Mary Washington Healthcare has adopted the Ortho VITROS® Automation Solutions with VITROS® Instrumentation to deliver a fully automated diagnostic platform to distribute a comprehensive menu of testing for a variety of diseases, conditions, and substances.

“At Mary Washington Healthcare, we are committed to continually innovating to improve patient outcomes,” said Cindy Huffman, Administrative Director of Pathology and Lab Services. “Our recent adoption of the state-of-the-art Ortho VITROS® Automation Solutions is another step in that commitment. The Ortho automated system gives us a consistent breadth of diagnostic data we need to deliver fast, accurate diagnoses to the physicians and patients who depend on those results.”

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Ortho Clinical Diagnostics is a global leader of in vitro diagnostics serving the global clinical laboratory and immunohematology communities. Across hospitals, hospital networks, blood banks and labs in more than 100 countries, Ortho’s high-quality products and services enable health care professionals to make better-informed treatment decisions. For the immunohematology community, Ortho’s blood typing products help ensure every patient receives blood that is safe, the right type and the right unit. Ortho brings sophisticated testing technologies, automation, information management and interpretation tools to clinical laboratories around the world to help them run more efficiently and effectively and improve patient care. Ortho’s purpose is to improve and save lives with diagnostics, and it does that by reimagining what’s possible.

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Mary Washington Healthcare is a fully integrated, regional medical system that provides inpatient and outpatient care through more than 40 facilities and services including Mary Washington Hospital, a 451-bed regional medical center, and Stafford Hospital, a 100-bed community hospital. Mary Washington Healthcare is a not-for-profit health system with a longstanding commitment to provide care regardless of ability to pay. For more information about our services and facilities, please visit www.mwhc.com.