On Campus Lab | Landon Northcutt and J. Mac Rust

On Campus Lab
Sep 9, 2018 · 5 min read

Great interview just conducted by our founders, Jay Mac Rust and Landon Northcutt of Stephenville, TX. Rust is a former attorney in Stephenville and Northcutt is still practicing law. Read on for the interview:

Welcome audience, I am John Walker with Lab Tech Now. I am very happy on this broadcast to bring this to our readers! As you know, this month, we have discussed the disruptions in other industries, and how similarities could begin happening in our own sector. We have brought a couple of gentlemen in on today’s broadcast, Mr. J. Mac Rust, and Mr. Landon Northcutt of Stephenville Texas to learn about how a young group that they worked together to create might become the game changer for a disruptive motion in the laboratory analysis world.

John: Mr. Rust, co-founder of On Campus Lab and L. Northcutt, with On Campus Lab, I am really appreciative you two have granted us an opportunity to speak with you this week so that we all will be able to be educated about this company, On Campus Laboratory Services and the changes that its’ model is going to potentially deliver to the laboratory testing industry.

J. Mac Rust: John, you are sincerely welcome! We’re excited to join you.

Landon Northcutt: Definitely, John, the two of us are thankful that you have extended an invitation to Mac and I to share with you and your followers.

John: Will the two of you explain to these followers some about On Campus Laboratory Management LLC?

J. Mac Rust: No problem John. On Campus Laboratory Management LLC, in simplest of terms is a business that makes connections between country hospitals with metropolitan clinics.

John: That sounds simple enough. Can you tell us what does this relationship consist of?

Landon Northcutt: We found that medical professionals in metropolitan areas are dealing with a host of churn and burn laboratory analysis for all of their lab testing and services. Usually these services was finished in a quick manner, but accurateness was a factor, customer service was less than stellar, and it just wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be anymore. Being that the two of us reside in a rural city about an hour outside of Fort Worth, we observed that there are a considerable amount of hospitals in small towns around here with very expensive lab equipment underused simply because the communities do not have a sizable enough local census count in their servicing area to really keep the hospital lab busy.

J. Mac Rust: John, at the heart of it, we visualize our role of On Campus Labs as connection points between the doctor’s offices and these small community hospital laboratories. Our company establishes services that includes the courier between the clinics and the lab services offices. We create relationships between these companies so that all parties benefit: the hospital owners see increased revenues from the lab being used more often, the doctors are getting quality services by a more relaxed staff who are in a more low stress environment, and the clinician’s patients are receiving answers back that have a higher degree of reliability, and in the same amount of time or less than it was taking under the previous solution.

John: J. Mac Rust that is an thoughtful implication. You mentioned that you’re seeing a contrariness as a result of it is a small town lab testing facility, instead of a metropolitan lab services facility. Will you comment on that?

Landon Northcutt: Sure John, Mac does bring up a compelling suggestion. What we’ve discovered is that in a lot of the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area lab services facilities, they can be a churn and burn environs to work in. They are trying to process a great number of laboratory results per day, and their technicians are under pressure to meet quotas. This type of nature as in any area of life produces stress. That stress does have an effect on the employees, the service delivered, and the organization itself. In turn, that has an effect on the medical professionals whom order the laboratory results, the people being treated, and the community. We’ve discovered that the low tension environment of much of our rural communities’ medical care facilities makes more cheerful workers. These are people that are college educated and have the ability to use all of the same lab equipment that you’ll find in the city, but their office isn’t that similar high turnover manner. So, because of that, they’re able to spend the time to be precise and keep procedures with fewer blunders.

John: Gentlemen, what’s the purpose of On Campus Laboratory Management?

J. Mac Rust: Partnering rural hospitals with progressive minded doctors. That is what we exist for. Mr. Walker, we really do believe that it takes a progressive minded doctor or out of the box thinker (whatever you want to call it) to see the beauty in this model. And, we really think that as more and more clinics are discovering new options, that their minds are going to be turned to this model simply out of necessity of doing things differently.

Landon Northcutt: We should make ourselves understood here Mr. Walker. We’re not implying that small community hospital labs need to take over and laboratory services facilities in large city areas are going to see a large drop in business. We’re simply saying that this model is a viable substitute that many more medical professionals are going to turn to as we progress onward. There’s more than enough space in this playground for all involved to capably get along cordially and have their slice of the action.

John: So, tell me more about your OCL. What kinds of service does On Campus Lab manage?

J. Mac Rust: Our testing services is composed of: Wellness Blood Testing, Blood Allergy Testing, Pharmacogenetics Testing, Respiratory Pathogen Panels, and Toxicology Panels.

John: You have the ability to cover most lab services that are being ordered?

Landon Northcutt: Close, John. There are some test that we haven’t jumped in to yet, mainly because the demand locally is very minuscule and the machines for these labs can be very pricey. There is no need to buy a piece of equipment that is not going to become cost efficient for a very long time when we are pretty confident medical professionals aren’t going to be making request for labs that must have the possession of those pieces of equipment.

John: Mac, Getting back to where we started, have you made plans to take over the world?

J. Mac Rust: Landon, I’ll let you answer this… Hahaha. I’m really joking. No, Mr. Walker, as far as we can see, we are just spending time on solving messes in this industry in Texas. We definitely do see how this model could disrupt the industry in each region, and we’ve got no doubt that other businesses will be figuring out how to disrupt the industry in their states and regions. Texas is a pretty big slice of the pie. We’ve got our laps filled up with this project at the moment and for the foreseeable future.

John: Okay Gentlemen, thank you for taking the time with us and entertaining me and the readers in these questions.

J. Mac Rust: You are welcome for sure Mr. Walker. Many thanks for inviting us.

Landon Northcutt: Definitely, Mr. Walker. Thanks for having us.

John: We are looking forward to learning more about your business and exploring what does lie ahead for your company. Once again, many thanks for your time.

If you want to learn more about J. Mac Rust On Campus Lab or Landon Northcutt On Campus Lab, contact them at:

On-Campus Laboratory Services

166 S. Belknap St

Stephenville, TX 76401

(254) 968–6868

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Landon Northcutt and J. Mac Rust of On Campus Lab help connect progessive minded doctors and medical offices in metro areas with rural hospital labs in Texas.