Quest Diagnostics partners with Northern Light Health in Maine

Quest Diagnostics and Northern Light Health, a large integrated healthcare system in Maine, announced a strategic laboratory collaboration. Quest will acquire select assets of Northern Light Health’s outreach laboratory services business, named Northern Light Laboratory, in an all-cash transaction. Quest will also provide professional laboratory management services for nine of Northern Light Health’s hospital laboratories, along with its cancer center laboratory at Northern Light Cancer Care in Brewer, Maine. The parties expect to complete the transaction in 1Q23. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Quest’s laboratory in Marlborough, Mass. will provide non-urgent advanced and routine clinical testing for physicians and patients now serviced by Northern Light Laboratory.