{"id":238804,"date":"2025-10-25T08:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238804\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:14:22","slug":"expect-delays-at-sault-area-hospital-due-to-computer-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238804\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect delays at Sault Area Hospital due to computer issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patients whose appointments or procedures need to be rescheduled will be contacted directly<\/p>\n<p>Sault Area Hospital declared a Code Grey at 1 a.m.\u00a0today due to an infrastructure \u2013 hardware issue.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, some of the hospital\u2019s computer systems are currently down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This outage is related to an infrastructure \u2013 hardware issue and is not a cybersecurity incident. SAH has activated its downtime procedures to ensure continuity of care,&#8221; a news release said.<\/p>\n<p>These manual procedures may lead to delays, and some patient appointments or procedures may need to be rescheduled. Any affected individuals will be contacted directly by a member of the SAH team.<\/p>\n<p>Patient safety remains SAH\u2019s highest priority. All emergency cases will continue to be prioritized, and emergency care will not be delayed. If you are experiencing a medical emergency, please call 911 or proceed to the Emergency Department, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Information Technology team is working diligently to restore systems as quickly as possible. Updates will be shared with the public as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thank the community for its patience and understanding during this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patients whose appointments or procedures need to be rescheduled will be contacted directly Sault Area Hospital declared a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,112581],"class_list":{"0":"post-238804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-sault-area-hospitalcode-grey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}