Two of the documents Lakeland (Fla.) Surgical & Diagnostic Center uses which are related to sterile processing are a sterile processing department testing and load form and sterile processing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ruth P. Shumaker, RN, BSN, CNOR, is a healthcare management consultant who focuses on both ambulatory surgery centers and hospital settings. Q: How should our ambulatory surgery center determine what ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. DMC Children's Hospital separating sterile processing ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — It’s something patients probably aren’t thinking about as they walk into General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital or one of Fort Leonard Wood’s dental clinics, but it’s ...

As part of the Detroit Medical Center’s cooperative agreement with the state, the medical center has agreed to hire a specialty consultant to oversee improvements to the facility’s center sterile ...

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 - ...

Lack of employee training and management oversight were two of eight findings of health code violations found in a four-page state inspection report issued Thursday of the sterile processing ...