As ASCs become a more convenient, less costly alternative to hospital-based surgeries, it’s important that sterile processing procedures are implemented properly and consistently to ensure safe and ...

Hammes, a national real estate consulting, development, investment and management firm, celebrated the groundbreaking of an expansion project at Specialists Hospital Shreveport, a physician-owned ...

They are CRDAMC's invisible gladiators of patient safety, tasked with a nasty mission: infection prevention. Whether dressed head to toe in personal protective gear or huddled over desks peering ...

A round 140 surgeries and other invasive procedures take place in our hospital system each week day — and at each one, a surgeon will walk into the operating room and find his or her instruments ...

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services cited Pinnacle Regional Hospital for its sterile processing procedures. Missouri health regulators have told a Boonville, Missouri, hospital that ...

WEST HAVEN — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is calling for a VA Inspector General’s Office investigation of the West Haven VA hospital’s sterilization procedures in the face of continued ...

While they don’t always receive praise for their work, central sterile technicians in the sterile processing department are integral to patient care. “The sterile processing department and central ...