Tallahassee hospital diverting patients, canceling non-emergency surgeries after cyberattack

A Tallahassee hospital has been forced to divert patients to other facilities and cancel all non-emergency surgical procedures after being hit by a cyberattack that began on Thursday night.

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare – one of the biggest hospitals serving a 21-county region in north Florida and south Georgia – said they have had to take their IT systems offline due to the security issue. 

“We are also diverting EMS patients and will only be accepting Level 1 traumas from our …

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