California hospital used contaminated instruments in three surgeries and failed to report the adverse event, state regulators found in a recent survey.

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 ...

Former employees of Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City are alleging the hospital, part of the Saint Luke’s Health System, failed to properly clean and repair operating room instruments, used rusty ...

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 ...

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.

Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital (AGSH), a 340-bed acute-care facility located in Downers Grove, Ill., is installing a real-time location system (RTLS) that leverages active RFID and workflow software ...

Twenty-one patients underwent operations at a Welsh hospital in which unsterilised surgical tools were used, in a huge blunder. WalesOnline can reveal the repeated use of unsterilised instruments in ...

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 ...