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Penn Medicine's Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia was among the most impacted hospitals by the tech outages caused due to CrowdStrike on Friday.Summer is traditionally a slow time for news, but the latest reports just keep heating up. that forced mass cancellations of surgeries, procedures, and routine appointments, and left doctors documenting emergency care with pen and paper.
Penn first canceled any surgery it could cancel for the morning. Then for the rest of the day. By midday, all Penn staff had to offer some patients was to jot down their name and contacts, promising to reschedule them next week. By evening, Penn IT staff were bringing systems back online. And Penn has since extended evening and weekend hours at some clinics, vowing to get most canceled appointments rescheduled within two weeks.Reedemer Health by two notches to ‘B+’ from ‘BB,’
While we’re talking about Montco: The county announced an $18 million investment in a new behavioral health crisis center that is expected toand Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, ranked as a combined entity, also placed nationally for multiple specialties, including cancer , ear, nose, and throat , and neurology and neurosurgery .
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