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Enhanced Workflow with Exceptional Results: Choosing to Partner with Milestone Medical for Tissue Processing

Enhanced Workflow with Exceptional Results

Customer

Customer

Colorado Skin Pathology, a CAP- and CLIA-certified dermatopathology laboratory in Highlands Ranch, CO, specializing in high-quality skin specimen processing and diagnosis.

Challange

Challange

The lab needed consistent, high-quality tissue processing for all specimen types, including difficult specimens like lipomas and mastectomies, while also reducing reagent waste, minimizing technician workload, and limiting exposure to hazardous chemicals.

Solution

Solution

By implementing Milestone’s LOGOS and later EVO tissue processors, Colorado Skin Pathology achieved unmatched processing consistency, streamlined reagent management, reduced maintenance, and safer xylene-free protocols—all with hands-on support from Milestone’s applications and service teams.

For Reliability and Support: Colorado Skin Pathology Chooses Milestone - Interview with Darin Brown discussing Milestone Tissue Processors EVO and LOGOS

For Reliability and Support: Colorado Skin Pathology Chooses Milestone

Customer

Customer

Colorado Skin Pathology, a CAP- and CLIA-certified dermatopathology laboratory in Highlands Ranch, CO, founded in 2017 and led by Executive Director Darin Brown.

Challange

Challange

As a small specialty lab, they needed a processor that delivered reliable performance, minimized downtime, and offered expert support. With limited redundancy, uncompromising quality was non-negotiable.

Solution

Solution

By choosing Milestone processors first with LOGOS and later upgrading to EVO, the lab gained consistent, cost-effective processing backed by exceptional applications and service support, ensuring reliability, safety, and scalability for future growth.

Elevating Laboratory Processing with Milestone’s EVO Tissue Processor

Elevating Laboratory Processing with Milestone’s EVO Tissue Processor

Customer

Customer

Colorado Skin Pathology, a locally owned dermatopathology reference laboratory in Highlands Ranch, CO, where Laboratory Manager Nathan Woodburn leads daily operations.

Challange

Challange

The lab needed to eliminate reprocessing, reduce technician workload, and improve turnaround while handling both routine and complex specimens, such as lipomas and mastectomies, without sacrificing quality.

Solution

Solution

With Milestone’s EVO processor, the lab achieved consistent first-run quality, streamlined reagent and paraffin management, xylene-free safety, and flexible protocols that improved efficiency, reduced costs, and supported high diagnostic standards.

Improving Laboratory Workflow with Milestone Equipment

Improving Laboratory Workflow with Milestone Equipment

Customer

Customer

TIAGA Pathology in Loveland, CO, where Laboratory Supervisor Ashtynn Leto oversees daily operations with over 15 years of dermpath experience.

Challange

Challange

The team needed reliable equipment that delivered quick turnaround for both routine and rush cases, was simple for new staff to learn, and minimized maintenance demands.

Solution

Solution

With Milestone’s Pathos DELTA, HistosMATE, and HistoDream EW, the lab gained fast and customizable processing, xylene-free safety, effortless cleaning, and dependable service support—enhancing efficiency and ensuring consistent quality for every case.

Improving Laboratory Workflow with Milestone Equipment

Revolutionizing Laboratory Workflow with Milestone Tissue Processors

Customer

Customer

TIAGA Pathology, a dermatopathology laboratory in Loveland, CO, led by board-certified pathologist and dermatopathologist Dr. Ingerlisa Mattoch.

Challange

Challange

The lab required a processor that could handle diverse specimen types—from tiny punches to large excisions—without reprocessing, while reducing hazardous waste and maintaining consistent slide quality.

Solution

Solution

By implementing Milestone’s Pathos DELTA, TIAGA Pathology streamlined workflows with customizable runs, eliminated reprocessing, improved tissue quality, and reduced costs through xylene-free processing—backed by Milestone’s responsive support team.

New Technology minimizes exposure to formalin

New Technology Minimizes Exposure to Formalin

Customer

Customer

Pathology Department of Helios University Hospital, Wuppertal, Germany.
Challange

Challange

At Helios Wuppertal, formalin is a necessity in daily tasks when dealing with specimens. The challenge is to reduce formalin exposure in the transport process from the operating room to the pathology department.
Solution

Solution

“The new UltraSAFE technology has helped us minimize exposure and reduce formalin consumption with benefits for both the operator’s safety and the environment”, says the customer.

Standardize and secure the freezing of tissues with FlashFREEZE

Standardize and Secure the Freezing of Tissues with FlashFREEZE

Customer

Customer

Anatomo-Cyto Pathology Laboratory of Center Hospitalier Universitaire d’Amiens Picardie, France.
Challange

Challange

Recent changes in the laboratory’s setup have rendered the liquid nitrogen freezing technique unsafe. Hence, the lab has been seeking a less hazardous and restrictive solution that would allow for ultra-fast freezing of samples, without compromising tissue preservation.
Solution

Solution

The FlashFREEZE system quickly and safely freezes samples at -80°C, standardizing the entire process.
The customer says: “We have validated the freezing method with the FlashFREEZE: this system allows an equivalent or higher quality of tissue preservation compared to liquid nitrogen freezing”.

Remove the risks of formalin in the operating room thanks to TissueSAFE plus

Remove the Risks of Formalin in the Operating Room thanks to TissueSAFE

Customer

Customer

Operating Room of Louis-Mourier Hospital, Colombes, France.
Anatomo-pathology Laboratory of Bichat-Claude-Bernard Hospital, Paris, France.
Challange

Challange

In 2017, the Anatomo-pathology Laboratory at Louis-Mourier Hospital closed and its operations were relocated to Bichat-Claude-Bernard Hospital’s laboratory. Consequently, it was necessary to find a solution to prevent storage and transportation of large samples in formalin, protecting operators against toxic exposure.
Solution

Solution

Thanks to TissueSAFE plus, large samples are placed under vacuum immediately after their extraction and sent to the Anatomo-pathology Lab, avoiding any formalin exposure.
A printed label is attached on the vacuum-sealed bag, ensuring complete traceability of the vacuum date and time, user and patient ID.

Ramón y Cajal hospital opens a new grossing room

Ramón y Cajal Hospital opens a new Grossing Room – Interview with Dr. José Palacios

Customer

Customer

Pathology Department of Ramón y Cajal Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
Challange

Challange

Dr. José Palacios, as the head of the Pathology Department, describes the renovation they faced in 2016. This stemmed from the need to update the technological equipment and ensure compliance with regulations concerning formalin exposure.
Solution

Solution

The integration of new grossing equipment with built-in imaging system (eGROSS and WorkSTATION) ensures higher flexibility, ergonomics and safety. The future installation of automatic formalin dispensing systems (SealSAFE) will reduce formalin exposure and improve sample documentation.