ST. LOUIS (AP) - An executive with the St. Louis area's biggest hospital provider say the network is rebounding from a 20-hour computer outage that disrupted its operations system-wide.
BJC HealthCare's executive vice president, Rich Liekweg, tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the system lost computer services from 3 p.m. Tuesday to about 11 a.m. Wednesday. It blocked functions that included email, electronic medical records, registration and scheduling systems at all of BJC's 13 hospitals.
Those sites included St. Louis' Barnes-Jewish Hospital, which on Wednesday also had to deal with a water main break that flooded a nearby street and forced about 130 patients to be moved to different rooms.
All northbound lanes of Kingshighway were closed after the break, but reopened overnight.