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“ What else can you do?”
That simple question nearly five years ago marked the beginning of the transformative partnership between Kettering, Ohio-based Kettering Health and Medline. Arianne Messer,
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Medline corporate accounts director, was an acute care lab specialist at the time and the health system’ s lab contact.
“ Kettering Health lab leadership was seeking a partner capable of servicing all points of care
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throughout the continuum,” Messer says.“ They faced challenges with certain point-of-care testing in physician offices, and we were able to deliver an effective solution.”
Messer was invited to a meeting
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to talk about Medline’ s point-of-care testing offerings, and that’ s when the lab director asked what else Medline can do.“ We reviewed our capabilities, how we had grown our footprint and could service their entire |