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Guthrie Lourdes Hospital still struggling with effects of Ascension cyberattack

Posted on May 16, 2024 by Dissent

Phoebe Taylor-Vuolo, Report for America corps member, reports:

Guthrie Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton continues to feel the impact of a recent cyberattack on Ascension, its former parent organization.

Ascension said it was hit with a ransomware attack on May 8. Lourdes was officially acquired by the Guthrie health system in February, but officials say that transition is still ongoing. That means when Ascension was affected by the cyberattack, the Guthrie Lourdes Hospital system was hit as well.

“We pivoted quickly, and out of an abundance of caution, postponed some elective surgeries to give us time to ensure that we could move forward with those procedures safely,” Lourdes President Kathy Connerton said in a video statement Friday.

Read more at WSKG.

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