The hospital has a history of sterilization issues dating back to 2014, when a surgeon reported surgical instruments were sometimes not properly washed and sterilized. A state investigation found ...

The Royal Melbourne Hospital has withdrawn thousands of surgical instruments after the discovery of a rare brain disease that killed a patient. A brain surgery patient died in the hospital earlier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In July, inspectors uncovered a massive backlog of uncleaned tools, prompting the hospital to halt all nonemergency surgeries from ...

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment completed its investigation into Denver-based Porter Adventist Hospital April 17. In its report, the CDPHE found the hospital failed to ...

Detroit Receiving hospital stopped surveillance of most surgical site infections due to staff cuts in 2018, including for patients exposed to dirty surgical instruments, according to a report released ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Nearly 1% of all surgical instruments in hospitals nationwide are rejected before they get to the operating room. They’re screened for blemishes left over from the sterilization ...

Fayetteville | Officials at a North Carolina hospital say about 160 patients may have been exposed to staph infection because surgical instruments weren't properly sterilized. Officials at Cape Fear ...

Before an automated surgical instrument tracking process was deployed last year at Westmead Children's Hospital, in the Australian state of New South Wales, up to five instruments a week went missing.

The hospital found some medical instruments had not been fully decontaminated A Merseyside hospital has admitted operating on patients with equipment that had not been sterilised. Arrowe Park Hospital ...

Federal health officials are investigating allegations of dirty surgical instruments and other quality problems at the Detroit Medical Center in response to allegations made last week by physicians.

State inspectors have revealed that UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital’s week-long shutdown of nonemergency surgeries came after they found dozens of contaminated surgical instruments caked ...