PeaceHealth Laboratories and Quest Diagnostics:

About the Decision

SUMMARY
By working with Quest, PeaceHealth will ensure long-term access to sustainable delivery of
high-quality laboratory services within our communities as we continue in our call to
promote personal and community health.

HERITAGE
PeaceHealth Laboratories has been an essential, dynamic and highly valued part of
PeaceHealth for decades, and has produced a rich history in each of our
communities.
PeaceHealth Laboratories has developed as a shining example of a centralized
healthcare service for PeaceHealth patients and communities.
PeaceHealth Laboratories provides exceptional service, quality and scope in support
of medical and other services provided by PeaceHealth and many providers and
organizations with which we collaborate.

TRANSFORMATION
Healthcare is in an era of transformation, including laboratory services.
Technology advancements, competition, regulations, the need for sustained capital
investment, and other factors have created profound changes and challenges.
To most effectively rise to these demands, many organizations are finding
innovative ways to collaborate.

DISCERNMENT
In 2015, PeaceHealth leaders began an extensive assessment of laboratory services
nationally as an essential part of an ethical discernment process.
The aim was to determine the best way for laboratory services to be provided in the
most appropriate, effective and sustainable manner.
In other words, a long-term solution was needed to meet the growing service and
technological needs of the communities we serve, as well as the caregivers and
providers with whom we serve.

DECISION
After this thorough assessment and discernment process, the PeaceHealth Board of
Directors ultimately decided to work with Quest Diagnostics, one of the worlds
largest and most respected providers of laboratory services.
 Specifically, Quest will manage our inpatient laboratories, which we will continue to
own. Also, Quest intends to purchase the outreach lab services of PeaceHealth
Laboratories, except in communities served by critical access hospitals.
We expect the agreement to be finalized in the spring of 2017.
Quests expertise and total focus on the lab industry will help PeaceHealth ensure
long-term access to sustainable delivery of high-quality laboratory services within
our communities as we continue in our call to promote personal and community
health.

CAREGIVERS
This new arrangement will enhance long-term sustainability by creating efficiencies.
While this is in the long-term best interest of our communities, were saddened to
share that this means fewer caregivers will be needed to carry on the work of
PeaceHealth Laboratories.
The decision was difficult to make specifically because of the impact on the
PeaceHealth Laboratories caregivers whom we respect and admire.
PeaceHealth is committed to providing the highest possible level of respect,
assistance and support services to assist caregivers in this transition.
The majority of affected caregivers will be contacted by the end of next week (Feb.
24) with details of this transition, including specific timing, job openings, counseling,
spiritual care and outplacement support services. Other affected caregivers will be
notified at various times later this year as ongoing operational assessments occur
during the transition period.
Quest is encouraging PeaceHealth Laboratories caregivers to apply for new
positions to be posted in Quests West region, primarily in Oregon and Washington.
If qualified, they would be given priority status in the interview scheduling process.
Also, should they choose to apply for an open position for which theyre qualified
within PeaceHealth, they would be given priority status for scheduling interviews.

GRATITUDE
We are extremely grateful for PeaceHealth Laboratories commitment to
consistently high quality care in the present and in the past, and we honor the many
people who have contributed to its heritage and success.