The US's largest Catholic healthcare provider remains very tight-lipped about the root cause of this digital breakdown, and when it expects its systems to come back online.In a statement that seems to be shrinking over the course of the ongoing downtime, which reportedly began on or around October 3, the Chicago-headquartered organization said it identified "an IT issue" affecting "some" of its more than 1,000 medical facilities across 21 states.A person who claimed to work for CommonSpirit posted over the weekend on a Reddit board for nurses complaining that IT systems including patient record software Epic, payroll tools, shift scheduling suite Kronos, and the company intranet were down.- Huge nonprofit hospital network suffers IT meltdown after 'security incident'- Ransomware gang threatens 1m-plus medical record leak- Healthcare organizations face rising ransomware attacks – and are paying up- Hive ransomware affiliate zeros in on Exchange serversA Register reader who said her daughter is a nurse at a CommonSpirit hospital, which we have chosen not to identify, said the facility has patients on dialysis machines without current lab reports, and IV medications coming from the pharmacy have hand-written labels "without correct order information."In an updated statement, the hospital chain said:Upon discovering the ransomware attack, we took immediate steps to protect our systems, contain the incident, begin an investigation, and ensure continuity of care."