When John Harrison checked into a Texas hospital in 2009 for rotator cuff surgery, he thought that after a six-week recovery period, he’d be as good as new. But two weeks after the operation, the 63 ...

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 ...

Trays of medical devices await decontamination after use. With some surgeries now requiring more than 15 trays, hospitals are struggling for space. University of Michigan Health System An outbreak of ...

DETROIT (AP) - Records show state regulators who cited the Detroit Medical Center for lax training failed to find problems with dirty surgical instruments during an inspection last year. The Detroit ...

State regulators who last week cited the Detroit Medical Center for lax training failed to find problems with dirty surgical instruments during an inspection last year — even as surgeons were ...

The News investigated years of complaints about dirty, broken and missing surgical instruments. More than 200 pages of emails and internal reports showed doctors’ concerns about patient safety. The ...

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 ...