AnMed Closes Almost 80 Facilities While it Grapples with Cyberattack
AnMed, a nonprofit health system operating across upstate South Carolina and Northeast Georgia, has shut down close to 80 facilities while responding to a cyberattack. The scale of the closure points to serious disruption across a regional system that serves a wide patient population.
Why this matters: Eighty facilities closing is not an IT problem. It is a public health problem. People who needed care this week may not have gotten it. Regional health systems like AnMed are often the main option for rural and lower-income patients who cannot easily drive to another hospital. When a cyberattack can take down that much of a care network at once, the risk is not just data exposure — it is physical harm to real patients. The question worth asking is how well these systems are required to protect infrastructure that people's lives depend on.
Who should care: Healthcare professionals · Privacy officers · Compliance
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