During a surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center on June 9, an operating room staffer discovered a bone fragment from a previous patient lodged in a sterilized surgical tool. A surgical team member set ...

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 ...

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 ...

DENVER (CBS4)- A doctor is planning to sue Porter Adventist Hospital over an infection after undergoing hip surgery during the sterilization breach period. Dr. Melanie Green is a physician, but on ...

Reacting to a San Antonio Express-News investigation, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said a report that surgical instruments contaminated with human tissue had made it into Brooke Army Medical Center ...

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One of the most dangerous places to be in America is on an Operating Room table. The Leapfrog Group estimates that as many as 400,000 patients die every year due to preventable hospital errors. And if ...

DRHD: M. abscessus is not spread directly from person to person.It causes illness most frequently when it enters wounds (traumatic or surgical) or contaminates injectable medication or medical devices ...

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 ...