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- HORIZON-Powered Laboratories Demand Results -
Does your laboratory provide mission-critical analytical services? HORIZON-powered laboratories rank among the largest and most highly automated labs in their respective fields. The laboratory owner/operator of a HORIZON laboratory demands results from their LIMS partner because the success of their operation hinges on ChemWare's commitment to support a fully integrated, validatable LIMS solution.
Here are a few HORIZON-powered laboratories with zero tolerance for manual workarounds, temporary fixes and partial solutions. Why would any quality laboratory settle for less?
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Advanced Toxicology Network (ATN), a state of the art workplace drug-testing laboratory, is a member of the Concentra Health Services network. ATN was designed to be the nation's most advanced toxicology laboratory. ATN performs more than 5,000 immunoassay-screening tests per day, and more than 400 GC/MS confirmations per day. This volume makes ATN one of the largest single site drug testing laboratories in the country.
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NMS Labs is a world-class, full-service, independent testing facility, staffed by nearly 200 highly trained scientists; including 15 doctoral level toxicologists, chemists, and criminalists. From their 66,000 square-foot headquarters in Willow Grove, PA, NMS staff conduct over 2,500 tests in the fields of clinical and forensic toxicology, DNA, and biopharmaceuticals.
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Aegis is a federally certified forensic toxicology laboratory providing a broad range of services to corporations, colleges & universities, schools, government agencies, families, and individuals. AEGIS provides comprehensive drug testing and consultation services to colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and is the largest independent sports doping laboratory in the U.S.
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Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories (PAML) is a division of Bourget Health Services, Inc., part of Sacred Heart Medical Center located in Spokane, Washington. PAML operates a state-of-the-art, full-service reference laboratory that provides a diverse range of testing services to over 100 hospitals throughout Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Alaska, and Wyoming. It is now the largest independent laboratory in the northwestern United States.
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Gulf Coast Analytical Laboratories is the largest privately held environmental laboratory in the state of Louisiana. Located in Baton Rouge, GCAL performs analytical testing on soil, water, air, waste, and biological samples for numerous Fortune 500 companies.
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SGS is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing, and certification company. With 36,000 employees, SGS operates a network of about 1,000 offices and laboratories around the world including environmental laboratories throughout North America.
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New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services is responsible for ensuring high levels of water quality for water supplies, ecological balance, and recreational benefits. The organization also regulates the emissions of air pollutants, ensures proper management of municipal and industrial waste, and manages water resources for future generations.
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South Florida Water Management District operates and maintains approximately 1,800 miles of canals and levees, 25 major pumping stations, and about 200 larger and 2,000 smaller water control structures. The District is one of five water management districts in Florida - a state recognized as having one of the biggest water quality challenges anywhere in the world. SFWMD moved into full production on HORIZON in August, within the six month implementation goal.
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Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (SRCSD) is one of the largest sanitation districts in California, serving unincorporated areas of Sacramento County, parts of the cities of Sacramento and Folsom, and the cities of Citrus Heights and Elk Grove. SRCSD conveys wastewater to the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant (SRWTP), which treats an average of 165 mgd of wastewater (though capable of treating 400 mgd) during peak wet-weather flow. The SRWTP is supported by a full-service laboratory that analyzes drinking water, wastewater, ambient (river) water, soil/sediment/sludge, and hazardous waste by several hundred environmental regulatory methods. |
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Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD)operates one of the largest county sanitation districts in California, serving about 5.1 million people. The districts’ service area covers approximately 800 square miles encompassing 78 cities and unincorporated territory within the county. The LIMS will connect ten water reclamation plant laboratories and one ocean discharge facility, along with users at twelve sanitary landfills and related refuse processing facilities. The project included the integration of external PIMS, the Comprehensive Environmental Toxicity Information System (CETIS) and Industrial Waste applications.
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Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD) provides water, wastewater water, and recycled water service to a population of over 630,000 people within a 555 square mile service area serving Riverside County, CA. The District provides wholesale water service to a variety of sub-agencies. The District operates four water reclamation facilities treating some 44 million gallons of wastewater daily, two water filtration plants, and two desalination plants.
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Alaska State Public Health Laboratories (ASPHL) process 75,000 samples annually. Many of these samples undergo multiple tests. The highest sample count is in clinical testing. Other disciplines include chemistry (R&D), bioterrorism, virology, research (assisting with an outbreak), and very limited food testing. An increase in the number of test requests submitted by the Alaska Native Medical Center is quite possible or even likely. Two laboratory locations, Anchorage and Fairbanks, process mutually exclusive types of tests. The Fairbanks laboratory is strictly Virology.
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The DC Public Health Laboratory caters to the health risk identification, public education, disease control and prevention, environmental hazard prevention, and promotion of effective community collaborations for the nations capital.
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Marion County Health Department (MCHD) is responsible for the public health of Indianapolis - the twelfth largest U.S. metropolitan area. MCHD operates two service bureaus to meet the needs of the public. The first is the Bureau of Population Health (BPH) which focuses on non-environmental health risks and is comprised of Acute and Chronic Disease, Adolescent Health, Community Based Care, Dental Health, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition Services, Public Health Laboratory, Vital Services, and Vital Records. The second service bureau is the Bureau of Environmental Health (BEH), which is concerned with environmental factors that can affect community health.
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The Idaho Bureau of Laboratories provides laboratory support services for state and local health and environmental protection programs. The Idaho State Laboratory is an essential part of Idaho’s public health infrastructure and provides services that facilitate food safety and disease control and prevention.
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JEA is the largest community-owned utility in Florida and the eighth largest in the United States. JEA owns, operates, and manages the electrical, water, and sewer systems for the City of Jacksonville.
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Georgia Power is the largest of five electric utilities that make up A Southern Company, the largest generator of electricity in the U.S., and has provided electricity to Georgia for more than a century. Georgia Power is an investor-owned utility that serves 2 million customers in 57,000 of the state's 59,000 square miles.
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Orange County Utilities Laboratory's Water Division operates a laboratory that is certified by the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for analysis of drinking water and wastewater. The Water Division's 15 water treatment facilities provide over 18 billion gallons of water annually through 1,600 miles of pipeline to more than 109,000 customers in unincorporated Orange County and the Town of Windermere.
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Westinghouse Anniston Chemical Defense Facility (ANCDF) provides nearly 50 percent of the nuclear power plants in operation worldwide and nearly 60 percent in the United States. Westinghouse Electric has 9,000 employees worldwide, pioneering value-added engineering and services. Under a DOD contract, Westinghouse is responsible for the safe destruction of stockpiled chemical weapons including sarin and VX.
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The Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) provides state-of-the-art science, technology, and engineering solutions to meet the rapidly changing needs of the war fighter. Located in Edgewood, Md., ECBC offers more than 85 years experience in chemical and biological defense and houses many facilities capable of handling items contaminated with chemical, biological, or radiological materials.
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US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM) is a linchpin of medical support to combat forces and of the military managed-care system. It provides worldwide scientific expertise and services in clinical and field preventive medicine, environmental and occupational health, health promotion and wellness, epidemiology and disease surveillance, toxicology, and related laboratory sciences. Professional disciplines represented include chemists, physicists, engineers, physicians, optometrists, epidemiologists, audiologists, nurses, industrial hygienists, toxicologists, entomologists, and many others as well as sub-specialties within these professions.
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Newport Chemical Depot (NECD)-- Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group, Inc. is a government-owned, contractor-operated facility where the Army produced its entire stockpile of VX, a rapid-acting, lethal nerve agent. Under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty ratified in April 1997, the U.S. must destroy its entire inventory of chemical weapons and production facilities by 2007. On February 18, 1999, the Army awarded the $295 million contract to Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group, Inc., and its partnership team headed by Allied Signal, to complete the facility design, build, operate, and close the disposal facility.
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