Specialty Laboratories, Inc. is a hospital-focused clinical laboratory performing highly advanced, clinically useful testing services for hospitals, laboratories and physician-specialist communities nationwide. The Company offers a comprehensive menu of esoteric assays, consisting of more than 2,500 assays. Esoteric assays are complex, comprehensive or unique tests used to diagnose, evaluate and monitor patients. The Company's assays for Hepatitis B and C and cardiovascular disease illustrate its ongoing application of advanced diagnostic techniques to diseases affecting a large or growing segment of the population. The Company performs all of its testing services at its laboratory facility in Santa Monica, California. Typically, the Company's customers collect a patient's specimen and forward it directly to the laboratory facility, which accepts specimens 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
