Hospital leadership, in an employee town hall meeting on Wednesday reviewed by The Denver Post, acknowledged they have no idea where the residue came from.
The Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora on November 9, 2023. This image was made using homemade plastic filters that the photographer attached to 50mm lens to give the image a more stylized look. The Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora is canceling surgeries until it can determine the source of a mysterious residue found on the hospital’s medical equipment.
In light of the contamination, the hospital is rescheduling all surgeries involving reusable medical equipment. Surgeries using disposable equipment will continue, Hayes said. Emergency surgeries, meanwhile, are being referred to community hospitals.Hospital leadership, in an employee town hall meeting on Wednesday reviewed by The Post, acknowledged they have no idea where the residue came from.
A state investigation of the hospital determined contaminated surgical instruments and trays — tainted by blood, bone chunks, cement, hair and even a dead insect — were brought into operating rooms 76 times in 2017 and 2018.that the head of the hospital network’s prosthetics department had been directing staff to delete orders from veterans in order to clear a sizeable backlog.
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