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Two New Jersey hospitals impacted by a ransomware cyberattack remain on emergency divert in some capacity.

Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair is now having only non-critical patients brought into its emergency room. Critical patients are being diverted to nearby hospitals.

Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood remains on full emergency room divert.

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The cyberattack impacted hospitals under the Ardent Health Services umbrella. Ardent Health Services took its network offline and suspended all user access to its information technology apps on Monday.

According to a spokesperson for Hackensack Meridian, no other hospitals were impacted, because they use a separate network.