The pandemic’s impact on elective procedures and reimbursement rendered price reductions from vendors on medical devices and supplies inadequate to improve hospitals’ economic health. Symmetry ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A 27-year-old man has become one of the first in the UK to have his kidney stones removed using pioneering ‘micro instruments’. Doctors hope that the instruments, which were used to treat Graham ...