October 20, 2017 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.