This is reportedly all resolved by now, but on April 25, Becker’s Hospital Review reported that dozens of hospitals affiliated with Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems were experiencing IT outages after data storage linked to their Oracle Health EHRs was accidentally deleted:
The hospitals have reverted to paper for patient records, with the issue expected to be resolved by the evening of April 28. Oracle Health engineers mistakenly deleted the storage while conducting maintenance work at one of their data centers.
Here is a list of the affected hospitals, according to an April 23 Community Health Systems email to staff:
- AllianceHealth Durant (Okla.)
- AllianceHealth Madill (Okla.)
- Carlsbad (N.M.) Medical Center
- Cedar Park (Texas) Regional Medical Center
- Crestwood Medical Center (Huntsville, Ala.)
- DeTar Hospital Navarro (Victoria, Texas)
- DeTar Hospital North (Victoria, Texas)
- Eastern New Mexico Medical Center (Roswell, N.M.)
- Flowers Hospital (Dothan, Ala.)
- Gadsden (Ala.) Regional Medical Center
- Grandview Medical Center (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Jefferson Memorial Hospital (Jefferson City, Tenn.)
- LaFollette (Tenn.) Medical Center
- Lake Granbury (Texas) Medical Center
- Laredo (Texas) Medical Center
- Longview (Texas) Regional Medical Center
- Lower Keys Medical Center (Key West, Fla.)
- Mat-Su Regional Medical Center (Palmer, Alaska)
- Medical Center Enterprise (Enterprise, Ala.)
- Merit Health Biloxi (Miss.)
- Merit Health Central (Jackson, Miss.)
- Merit Health Madison (Canton, Miss.)
- Merit Health Natchez (Miss.)
- Merit Health Rankin (Brandon, Miss.)
- Merit Health River Oaks (Flowood, Miss.)
- Merit Health River Region (Vicksburg, Miss.)
- Merit Health Wesley (Hattiesburg, Miss.)
- Merit Health Woman’s Hospital (Flowood, Miss.)
- MountainView Regional Medical Center (Las Cruces, N.M.)
- Navarro Regional Hospital (Corsicana, Texas)
- Newport (Tenn.) Medical Center
- North Knoxville Medical Center (Powell, Tenn.)
- Northwest Health – La Porte (Ind.)
- Northwest Health – Porter (Valparaiso, Ind.)
- Northwest Health – Starke (Knox, Ind.)
- Northwest Medical Center – Bentonville (Ark.)
- Northwest Medical Center – Springdale (Ark.)
- Poplar Bluff (Mo.) Regional Medical Center – North
- Santa Rosa Medical Center (Milton, Fla.)
- South Baldwin Regional Medical Center (Foley, Ala.)
- Tennova Healthcare – Clarksville (Tenn.)
- Turkey Creek Medical Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)
- Willow Creek Women’s Hospital (Johnson, Ark.)
- Western Arizona Regional Medical Center (Bullhead City, Ariz.)
- Woodland Heights Medical Center (Lufkin, Texas)