Universal Health Services

Hegland Succeeds Herman as Prairie St. John’s CEO

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Prairie St. John’s has a new CEO: Ty Hegland. He takes over running the mental health hospital after serving for the past five years as President and CEO of Sharehouse, a substance abuse center. He also previously served as an executive at Sanford Health. Hegland succeeds Jeff Herman who served as Prairie St. John’s CEO for…

Prairie Saint John’s still operating amid computer systems shutdown

Universal Health Services, who owns the Fargo hospital, is the victim of one the largest medical cyber attacks in history.

FARGO, N.D. –What is said to be one of the largest medical cyber attacks in history is hitting close to home Computer systems under Universal Health Services started to fail around 2:00 a.m. on Sunday. Prairie Saint John’s in Fargo is owned by that company and decided to shut down their IT system completely to ensure the safety of patient…