ASCENSION HEALTH INC

Ascension's 2024 ransomware attack was a care-continuity event before it was a privacy-notification event. The public record shows emergency diversion, downtime procedures, unavailable electronic health records, pharmacy and order-workflow disruption, staged EHR restoration, later patient and employee data notification, and a financial recovery record. The accountability question is not whether criminals caused the attack. It is who controlled the clinical fallback, recovery sequence, patient notice, partner reconnection, evidence boundary, and duty to make care work when the digital chart was temporarily unavailable.