Missouri Hospital Diverts Trauma Patients After Network Outage

Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, shut down its IT networks on 14 August after a disruption made its electronic health record system, patient portal and internet access unavailable. The outage affected the hospital and its Medical Mall Clinic, and patients were asked to bring paper orders and up-to-date medication lists while electronic systems remained offline. The hospital also warned that appointments and treatment could take longer.

Diagnostic imaging was also disrupted because the hospital’s systems could not send images to radiologists. As a result, the emergency department partially diverted trauma and other critically ill patients who required immediate advanced imaging, although the department otherwise stayed open. The supplied report attributes these details to DysruptionHub.

It does not provide evidence confirming that the outage was caused by ransomware, despite the headline’s reference to a ransomware group claiming responsibility, nor does it identify the group or report any confirmed data theft.