There seem to be few to no protections that ensure patients continue to get care for the most urgent health matters while hospital cyber systems are offline.
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Central Maine Healthcare tells employees it’s planning layoffs, source says
Officials with the hospital system declined to comment publicly on the announcement Thursday.
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Healthy Androscoggin faces funding cuts from ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
The funding cuts come more than six months after the public health organization became independent of Central Maine Healthcare.
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Radiation therapy services ‘fully restored,’ Central Maine Healthcare says
The hospital system has updated how patients should reach out to providers and announced that radiation therapy services are back online at the Cancer Care Center.
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Central Maine Healthcare says most phone lines are back in operation
Since the beginning of June, Central Maine Healthcare has grappled with a systemwide computer outage.
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Central Maine Healthcare acquisition will improve care, foundation says
In its application to the state, Prime Healthcare Foundation says it will inject new funds into the system and lower costs as well.
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Our coverage of how cyber incidents disrupted Lewiston-area hospitals and patients
The hospitals are working to return to normal after what leaders have described as recent cybersecurity incidents.
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Central Maine Healthcare’s future depends on its acquisition, CEO says
Speaking at a chamber breakfast Thursday, Central Maine Healthcare CEO and President Steve Littleson did not comment on the hospital system’s ongoing system outage.
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Central Maine Healthcare system down after ‘outage’
Covenant Health, which owns St. Mary’s Health System, was still working to restore full system access Monday after it suffered a cyberattack last week.
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Do you have questions about possible changes at Central Maine Healthcare?
Prime Healthcare Foundation is interested in acquiring the Lewiston-based health care system — which runs Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Bridgton Hospital and Rumford Hospital.