27-05-2025
Kettering Health announces parts coming back online after less than a week
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Less than a week after a cyberattack knocked much of its services offline, some parts of Kettering Health are coming back sooner than expected.
The health care provider announced Monday that its Radiation Oncology equipment was back online just five days after the attack on May 20.
'We were able to get back online within five days of this event starting so we are now treating patients who had active radiotherapy plans again,' Dr. Anthony Paravati, radiation oncologist.
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'This is Memorial Day weekend. They are sacrificing time off, sacrificing time with their family for our patients, for the mission.'
During a media briefing Friday, a representative for Kettering Health said experts they had consulted with had estimated a time frame of 10-21 days to bring things back online.
'We're on Day Three,' said John Weimer, the senior vice president and leader for Incident Command.
One of the Radiation Oncology staff labeled the rabid restoration 'amazing.'
'You've got hundreds of people working around the clock, and to have even one linear accelerator, and then two and then three, and then everything up, is an amazing feat,' said technical physicist Christopher Wennerstrom.
'The team is literally doing everything possible can do to get what's best for these patients done,' Sarah Macke, radiation oncologist.
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