Hospital’s sterile processing departments play an under-the-radar yet critically important role in patient care. While their function may not be prominently known to patients, they are responsible for ...

The following content is sponsored by Surgical Directions. Most hospitals in recent years have focused needed attention on preventing surgical site infections. Properly timed antibiotics, skin ...

Growing orthopedic (ortho) and spine surgical volume raises an important question: can ASC support structures handle the increased workloads and regulatory requirements without increased financial ...

On Monday, Community Hospital announced a major expansion project to its surgical and sterile processing departments to ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. SPDx has received an Advanced Sterile Processing Certification from DNV ...

Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle decreased its sterile processing error rate from 3 percent to 1.5 percent over 37 months, according to a study in The Joint ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getinge has a workforce of around 12 Getinge and SteriPro International have entered a strategic partnership to support safer ...

CHICAGO, Sept. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgical Directions announced today the release of its latest report, Unseen but Essential: The Knowledge Demands and Staffing Crisis in Sterile Processing, ...

WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, two of the Sterile Processing industry’s biggest names, Crothall Healthcare and Beyond Clean, announced a landmark collaboration to develop an innovative ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Health care-Associated Infections (HAI) is the most frequent adverse event in health-care delivery worldwide. While nosocomial infections, an infection ...