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Lewon's two hospitals are back online
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after both faced cyber security
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incidents about a month ago.
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Representatives for St. Mary's Hospital
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and Central Main Healthcare say phone
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lines and online patient portals are now
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back up and running. But as CBS 13's
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Anna reports, some patients are
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I'm done with CNMC. Tom Powell was
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scheduled to get knee replacement
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surgery at Central Main Healthcare on
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June 11th, but that surgery still hasn't
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happened. Well, I said I would have
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liked somebody to call me.
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Am I still a patient of this doctor? Are
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they going to still try to schedule a
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casting? The cancellation came about 10
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days after the hospital's phone and
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computer system shut down due to a cyber
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security incident. The CEO now says
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those systems are back up and running
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and in a statement apologized to
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affected patients, adding quote, "We
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have emerged a stronger, more secure
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health system." Across town, St. Mary's
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Hospital faced a similar problem. And a
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spokesperson for the hospital's parent
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company, Covenant Health, says its
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systems are also back up and running.
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But the month-long outage did cause
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delays like for Rick McVey, a cancer
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patient who missed weeks of radiation
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treatment. They had three treatments
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before they had to uh shut down. Still,
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McVey says his experience at the cancer
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center has been a good one, and he was
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able to restart treatment last week.
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They've been really good keeping me
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informed. Um, and I have no complaints.
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I I know they had to be under a lot of
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stress, you know, for those three weeks
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trying to get everything taken care of.
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But other patients like Powell are still
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frustrated waiting again for his knee
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replacement because progressively gotten
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worse. I'm probably a chronic pain of
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about four. Powell says he's already
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been in touch with a different provider
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to get his surgery in Lewon. Anakun, CBS
