Two Massachusetts hospitals are still reeling from a network outage last week that was later discovered to be caused by a cyberattack.

Heywood Hospital in Gardner, which has 134 beds, and Athol Hospital in Athol, which has 25 beds, first reported being impacted by the outage Oct. 13 on Facebook . Though they continued to care for in-patients, the outage impacted numerous hospital systems, causing ambulances to be diverted.

The hospitals were later placed on “Code Black,” a last-resort emergency status which led patients to be transferred to other facilities, Central Massachusetts EMS said Oct. 15 in a Facebook post . By Oct. 17, the Code Black was removed , but the hospitals remained fraught with “limited capabilities.”

Due to the network’s systems still being partially down, the

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