After a whistle-blower complained of medical neglect, dirty surgical instruments and flies in an operating room at Manchester (N.H.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center, a VA report cleared the hospital ...

POCATELLO — Following an investigation into unclean surgical tools, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare found that multiple surgical patients nearly came in contact with tissue fragments left ...

California health officials declared “immediate jeopardy” at UC San Diego Health-Hillcrest in March for at least the eighth time after officials discovered issues with how surgical equipment was ...

The Detroit Medical Center has spent $1.2 million since September to correct problems with dirty surgical instruments and has put multiple systems in place to ensure the safety of patients, 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 ...

Patients are being put at risk due to governance gaps in the decontamination of surgical instruments in NHS hospitals, a new report by the healthcare safety watchdog has found. The investigation by ...