A phone and internet outage caused disruptions at Monadnock Community Hospital on Monday.
The hospital was not accepting inbound patients as of noon on Monday, the Southwestern N.H. District Fire Mutual Aid dispatch center confirmed.
Laura Gingras, the hospital’s vice president of community relations, confirmed the outages and said the hospital has alternative phone lines. She declined to comment on the status of accepting inbound patients.
“The hospital IT department and leadership are actively working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. We appreciate the patience and understanding of everyone as we work to restore this,” Gingras said in a statement.
She did not provide any additional information about the timeline or the cause of the outage.
The next closest hospitals are the Cheshire Medical Center in Keene and Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.