That will bring us up to 9,000 tests – including Accu Reference, Dominion, the State Health Lab and some other private labs – that are providing results in 48 hours or less.' By next month, Dominion will increase their capacity to 7,000 tests per day. 'Starting next week, Accu Reference and Dominion will each run 1,000 Rhode Island tests per day – 2,000 in total. 'After a competitive bidding process, Rhode Island has contracted with two labs – Accu Reference and Dominion Diagnostics – that are going to majorly expand our testing capacity and guarantee us results within an average of 48 hours,' said Raimondo. On August 5, Raimondo announced the new partnerships. Raimondo said that a quicker testing turnaround time is necessary to send children back to school in the fall. Nursing homes decried the lack of timely test results a Rhode Island mom waited ten days for a test result for her nine-year-old. In July, Raimondo backed off that testing goal as testing dramatically decreased. By early May, the state did not test even 2,000 a day - but Raimondo said that the state was averaging 2,700 a day, and wanted to get to 20,000 a day by the fall. In the first month of coronavirus cases in the state, Rhode Island had struggled to test over 200 people a day. On May 6, Raimondo outlined her plan to increase testing. She said the expansion of testing was critical to successfully reopening and keeping the economy open. Repeatedly, Raimondo set lofty testing goals to battle the coronavirus. Bredar also ordered Bas to forfeit $241,600 and to pay a fine of $5,000. District Judge James Bredar sentenced Bas and co-conspirator Mubtagha Shah Syed to a year and a day, and three months in prison, respectively, each followed by three years of supervised release, for a scheme in which a Maryland pain management practice referred urine specimens to Bas’s testing lab in return for $1.37 million in kickbacks. GET TOP POLITICAL NEWS FIRST - SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL'S FREE DAILY EBLAST GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE - SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST Attorney in the District of Maryland in a “pain management clinic kickback scheme.” In 2018, Konstantin Bas, the now-former CEO of Accu Reference, was sentenced to federal prison by the U.S. On Wednesday, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo announced that the state is partnering with two new laboratory companies - Dominion, located in Rhode Island, and Accu Reference, based out of New Jersey, to help with the processing and turnaround time of coronavirus lab tests. RI Governor Gina Raimond announced the partnership with Accu Reference this week.

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