Despite the serious harm they cause to patients as well as hospitals’ reputation and accreditation status, wrong-site surgeries aren’t nearly as rare as they should be. According to the Joint Commission, they represented the third most reported sentinel event in 2010, and a new report from the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare suggests that up to 40 wrong-site surgeries occur in the United States every week. This update provides plenty of material on this topic, ranging from data on the prevalence of wrong-site surgeries to case studies of how hospitals addressed the issue when a wrong-site surgery occurred, and steps that hospitals can take the make sure this “never event” never happens.