Community Health Northwest Florida (CHNWFL) experienced a cybersecurity attack on its servers and chose to temporarily take its systems offline as a security measure. CEO Chandra Smiley stressed there was no evidence of compromised patient data and essential services will continue on a restricted basis. Despite current disruption to phone, email, and web systems, updates will be provided as available.
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