Headaches continue for patients and staff three weeks into hospital ransomware attack - Villages-News.com
Headaches continue for patients and staff three weeks into hospital ransomware attack
By
Meta Minton
June 19, 2021
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Nearly three weeks after a ransomware attack was launched against computers at UF Health-The Villages Hospital and Leesburg Regional Medical Center, there seems to be no end in sight for suffering patients and staff.
The cyberattack began on Memorial Day, the same week a new COO took over at the two hospitals.
A Villager spent most of Friday at the Leesburg ER after arriving there at 9 p.m. Thursday for tests.
He described the ER as looking like a “refugee camp” and said staffers were “losing their sense of humor.” He asked that his identity be kept confidential because he is in need of ongoing medical care from the hospital.
By
Meta Minton
June 19, 2021
SHARE
Nearly three weeks after a ransomware attack was launched against computers at UF Health-The Villages Hospital and Leesburg Regional Medical Center, there seems to be no end in sight for suffering patients and staff.
The cyberattack began on Memorial Day, the same week a new COO took over at the two hospitals.
A Villager spent most of Friday at the Leesburg ER after arriving there at 9 p.m. Thursday for tests.
He described the ER as looking like a “refugee camp” and said staffers were “losing their sense of humor.” He asked that his identity be kept confidential because he is in need of ongoing medical care from the hospital.
