"Heywood Hospital in Gardner, which has 134 beds, and Athol Hospital in Athol, which has 25 beds, first reported being impacted by the outage Oct. 13 on Facebook. Though they continued to care for in-patients, the outage impacted numerous hospital systems, causing ambulances to be diverted. The hospitals were later placed on "Code Black," a last-resort emergency status which led patients to be transferred to other facilities, Central Massachusetts EMS said Oct. 15 in a Facebook post."
"Both hospitals are owned and managed by Heywood Medical Group, a non-profit physician organization. The group confirmed Oct. 16 that the network outage was caused by "a cybersecurity incident." 'Upon discovery, we immediately activated our response protocols and took affected systems offline to protect our network and patients,' the organization said on Facebook. 'We are working closely with third-party cybersecurity experts to assess the situation and restore full functionality as quickly and safely as possible.'"
Heywood Hospital in Gardner (134 beds) and Athol Hospital in Athol (25 beds) experienced a network outage beginning Oct. 13 that was later attributed to a cybersecurity incident. The outage disabled email, phones, radiology and lab services, and impacted Heywood's CAT scan machine, prompting ambulance diversions. The hospitals declared Code Black Oct. 15, resulting in patient transfers to other facilities, and Code Black was lifted Oct. 17 while capabilities remained limited. Heywood Medical Group took affected systems offline, engaged third-party cybersecurity experts, continued inpatient care with triage constraints, and instructed outpatients about appointment changes.
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