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 ...

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 ...

The Royal Melbourne Hospital has withdrawn thousands of surgical instruments after the discovery of a rare brain disease that killed a patient.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exclusive: Patients have been put at risk of infection with viruses such as HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. The 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.

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.