The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is investigating CU Anschutz for its post-operation practices. CDPHE said it's addressing a public complaint about the hospital's cleaning and sterilizing of used surgical equipment. UCHealth vice president of communications Dan Weaver says the Sterile Processing Department is short-staffed and some surgeries have to be postponed. 'We have increased the number of staff members working in SPD to increase the amount of instruments being sterilized, and this volume of cleaned equipment is returning to normal,' Weaver says. 'Until the SPD is at full capacity, some elective cases will be postponed to ensure we have the instruments needed to provide all urgent and emergent surgeries and procedures.'
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