Northwestern Medical Center will begin using a mobile sterile processing unit to both restore our surgical capacity as ...

An aging patient population and an increasingly consumer-driven healthcare environment fuel the demand for quick, convenient surgical procedures. The tools used in these procedures are more ...

Scalpels, scissors and other surgical instruments usually resigned to poorly lit hospital basements for cleaning now have their own sterilization building at Ohio State. Kim Jones, director of Central ...

Central sterile processing is essential for a safe and efficient operating room. Mistakes in sterilization can cause delays in surgery and patient infections, among other issues. Alecia Cooper, RN, BS ...

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 ...

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Saratoga Hospital recently completed a $5 million expansion of its central sterile processing department to accommodate significant growth in complex surgical ...

Arlington, VA, March 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Transportation of medical devices between facilities is increasingly the norm. Health care facilities often send instruments to offsite reprocessing ...

University Hospital South, the former C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, will become the new home to Michigan Medicine's Central Sterile Processing Department. (Ann Arbor News file photo) ANN ARBOR, MI - ...