DEAR DR. ROACH: Recently, I underwent breast cancer surgery at my local hospital. Imagine my surprise when I found several staff members who weren’t wearing masks in the operating room. Later I ...

WASHINGTON — Eleven-year-old Kelly K. Spencer put on her gloves, apron and face mask as she prepared to enter the hospital operating room in 2000. This wasn’t your typical take-a-child-to-work day, ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Recently, I underwent breast cancer surgery at my local hospital. Imagine my surprise when I found several staff members who weren’t wearing masks in the operating room. Later I ...

Here are eight hospital operating room construction projects that are planned or completed, listed in descending chronological order. 1. Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky., is constructing new ...

The following article is written by Joyce Thomas, senior vice president, operations, for Regent Surgical Health. Perhaps the title of this column is an oxymoron. The terms ‘efficiency’ and ‘hospital ...

Community Hospital closed its operating room last Thursday after staff discovered contaminants in its sterile processing equipment. According to Community Hospital Chief Executive Officer Chris Thomas ...

Delaware County elected officials accuse the California-based Prospect Medical Holdings of starving Crozer Health to line the company’s coffers. From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about ...

Methodist Hospital Metropolitan is embarking on a nearly $200 million expansion starting late September to keep up with growing demand. “We’re busy,” hospital CEO Greg Seiler said. “We’re full, ...

Crozer Health, the four-hospital system in Delaware County, will shutter all operating room services at Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park by Sept. 1. A spokesperson for the financially distressed health ...