OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington, Ill., put elective surgeries and procedures on hold after a power outage at the facility, according to an article on the Pantagraph website.
Essential services and the emergency department continued with emergency generators.
Power was lost at 6:30 a.m. on May 30 to the medical complex and other businesses in the immediate area. It was restored late on May 31.
The St. Joseph campus lost electrical power because of an underground short in power lines leading to the hospital. Two of three lines feeding electricity to the campus were down.
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