Ams Reference Lab

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AMS was established in 1983 as a Regional Independent Reference Laboratory, and operated as a for-profit company, owned by the Saint Francis Healthcare Corporation. AMS was created due to the uncertain future hospitals faced with the introduction of prospective payment and DRGs. Executives from the commercial reference laboratory business were recruited to design, build, and execute a competitive service package that would compete with any reference laboratory currently in the market place. The primary goal of AMS was to generate profits from the sale of laboratory testing services to physicians, government, and industry, and stem the flow of healthcare dollars to distant chain lab operations. AMS's sales and service success ensured its ability to contribute profits back to the sponsoring congregation, the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, who in turn channeled those profits back into healthcare for all Kansans, and the continued support of the healing ministry of the SSM.

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