Hospital Pathology Services
New England Pathology Associates, P.C. (NEPA) has an exclusive contract with Mercy Medical Center (MMC), a 182-bed acute care community hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts, to provide on-site subspecialized pathology services to their medical staffs and medical direction of their laboratories. NEPA has a joint venture with MMC, LifePath Partners, LLC, for co-ownership and operational control of the histology and cytology laboratories. This unique partnership permits direct physician/pathologist management oversight of all technical operations, resulting in excellent quality control and rapid diagnostic reporting for all inpatient and outpatient specimens. The arrangement also provides state-of-the-art technical support for NEPA’s outreach services.
These relationships give NEPA a significant presence in central and western Massachusetts.
NEPA’s hospital operations provide subspecialty pathology services in:
- Breast pathology
- Cytopathology (PAP test, fine needle aspirations, non-gynecologic specimens)
- Dermatopathology
- Gastrointestinal pathology
- Gynecologic pathology
- Hematopathology
- Hepatic pathology
- Pulmonary pathology
- Renal pathology
- Thyroid/Endocrine pathology
- Transfusion medicine
- Urologic pathology