Stop the "corporate" mindset in healthcare testing

Target:

Quest Diagnostics

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Quest Diagnostics follows the six sigma business plan. This plan is fine for manufacturing and assembly line work. It is not a good business plan for healthcare.Quest Diagnostics requires everyone within the organization to meet established goals of items per minute. In other words your blood tests must be delivered and processed in a certain amount of time. What isn't known to the average consumer(ie patient) is that the information entered must be done in under two minutes. This leaves a great room for error. Errors should not be happening in healthcare. Demand that Quest diagnostics follows their slogan "the patient comes first" rather than the bottom line and the stockholders interest.

We The undersigned, demand that our test results are not just handled the way companies make elmo dolls. Our test are important to us, and the wrong results or errors made in any part of the process could be devasting to ourselves or to our loved ones. Take the upper hand and stop letting corporate greed invade healthcare.Do away with the six sigma process in your laboratories.
Thank You for doing the right thing and being a company that we can trust and have faith in.

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# 48:

12:42 pm PDT, Aug 29, Veronica Lijana, Indiana

# 47:

1:34 pm PDT, Aug 15, Jillyanne Michelle Cape, Missouri

# 46:

8:49 am PDT, Aug 9, Andi Alnwick, New York

# 45:

4:21 pm PDT, Aug 5, Terri Ybarbo, Texas

# 44:

12:22 am PDT, Jul 31, Louise Potter, United Kingdom
Healthcare needs to be about providing what's best for the patient, rather than meeting performance targets. Performance targets are fine for sales reps, but not when talking about patients health.

# 42:

1:32 am PDT, Jul 28, Travis Roper, Utah
Even ONE error that impacts someone's healh is too many!! Be human(and huMANE) and slow down!

# 41:

12:24 pm PDT, Jul 27, Lori Abercrombie, Maryland

# 40:

11:38 am PDT, Jul 27, Suzanne Wastchak, Pennsylvania

# 39:

2:38 pm PDT, Jul 15, Joan Mclaughlin, Pennsylvania
PEOPLE BEFORE STOCKHOLDERS.JUST THINK WITHOUT CUSTOMERS THERE WOULDN'T BE STOCKHOLDERS.PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES BETTER THINK ABOUT MORE THAN THE BOTTOM LINE.IF THINGS KEEP GOING THE WAY THAT THEY ARE NOW,THERE WON'T BE A COMPANY TO HAVE A BOTTOM LINE.WHY? WITH WRONG RESULTS YOU'LL KILL US AND THEN OUR FAMILIES WILL SUE YOU.

# 38:

11:09 am PDT, Jul 15, Seth Stern, New Jersey

# 37:

6:53 pm PDT, Jul 10, Stephanie Dunbar, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines

# 36:

1:51 am PDT, Jul 8, Can Atik, Turkey

# 35:

11:47 am PDT, Jul 7, Marsha Sumal, New Jersey
Our family currently uses Quest labs, through our choice, not the insurance company's. We strongly object to the use of animals and there are many jokes about Six Sigma.Sigma being referred to as a body fluid for one and that Six Sigma makes money for the writers and publishers, not the suckers that try to follow it's severely flawed psychology and formula.Back to MISSION EXCELLENCE! PATIENT CARE FIRST!SANCTITY OF LIFE!

# 34:

8:20 pm PDT, Jul 6, Dave Kane, New York
Accuracy -- What, me worry?

# 33:

6:08 pm PDT, Jul 6, Name not displayed, Michigan

# 32:

1:33 pm PDT, Jul 6, Kim Moore, Missouri
enough is enough....AND IT IS NOT ABOUT THE MONEY...it is about human lives, welfare, and well-being!

# 31:

11:35 am PDT, Jul 6, Cara Gubrud, Minnesota

# 30:

10:09 am PDT, Jul 6, Town Almanak, Alabama

# 29:

7:44 am PDT, Jul 6, Jill Pearson, Georgia
I have had problems with Quest Diagnostics. They cannot even get their paperwork straight. They kept billing me when I did not owe them anything. Makes you wonder about their test results. My doctor stopped using them because she had so many problems with them and their records with all of her patients, as well as other doctors.

# 28:

6:42 am PDT, Jul 6, Candace Penner, California

# 27:

12:32 am PDT, Jul 6, Toni Sokoloski, Massachusetts

# 26:

5:32 pm PDT, Jul 5, Heather Gregory, South Carolina

# 25:

5:02 pm PDT, Jul 5, Name not displayed, United States Minor Outlying Islands

# 24:

4:59 pm PDT, Jul 5, Michelle Mesite, Connecticut

# 23:

12:37 pm PDT, Jul 5, Rose Bellamy, United Kingdom

# 22:

11:41 am PDT, Jul 5, Carol Loar, California

# 21:

10:49 am PDT, Jul 5, Panagiotis Rigopoulos, Greece

# 20:

6:34 am PDT, Jul 5, Lorraine Kay, United Kingdom

# 19:

4:16 am PDT, Jul 5, Roxie Schliesman, Wisconsin

# 18:

11:03 pm PDT, Jul 4, Jeff Donovan, Canada
In medical practices, we place our lives in the hands of supposed professional doctors and therefore given much trust in the doctors we seek. Please consider our patient rights where patients need to come first in order to omit the most errors in timely fashions. Thank You.

# 17:

9:30 pm PDT, Jul 4, Pam Boland, Georgia

# 16:

9:13 pm PDT, Jul 4, Name not displayed, Florida
Again, it's more money over less life. WAKE UP PEOPLE!

# 15:

7:42 pm PDT, Jul 4, David J Buchan, Australia

# 14:

6:29 pm PDT, Jul 4, Marcy Morgan, California

# 13:

6:19 pm PDT, Jul 4, Morgan Griffith, California
I work for a doctor and our office has relied on results from this lab, now I see that these are dubious at best, putting our patients in harms way. Thank you Quest

# 12:

5:57 pm PDT, Jul 4, Steve Dale, Australia

# 11:

5:42 pm PDT, Jul 4, Name not displayed, Maine

# 10:

4:31 pm PDT, Jul 4, Michael Cryer, Colorado

# 9:

3:42 pm PDT, Jul 4, Mark Smith, California

# 8:

3:31 pm PDT, Jul 4, Cate Groves, Connecticut
It's about time to put people first.

# 7:

3:17 pm PDT, Jul 4, Sophia Dalle, New York

# 6:

3:00 pm PDT, Jul 4, Rob Levy, United Kingdom
There must be clear lines around social provision.It does not benefit from being run like a business.Health ,education and welfare should be run publically.Has the US not learnt,from looking at the league table of healthcare outcomes,that its model is wasteful,costly,extremely selective,ie its ok if you are rich,but useless for the less well off.

# 5:

2:48 pm PDT, Jul 4, Laura Zanoli, Italy

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12:34 pm PDT, Jul 4, Charles Mclachlan, United Kingdom

# 3:

7:34 am PDT, Jul 4, Name not displayed, New York

# 2:

2:21 am PDT, Jul 4, Steve Klein, Canada

# 1:

9:22 pm PDT, Jul 3, Joyce Crock, Pennsylvania
As a former employee I am appalled at the practice of six sigma mindset in the health care industry.

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