Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo targeted in ‘cyber incident’

PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) -- KRDO learned Friday that Parkview Medical Center has investigators looking into a "cyber-incident" that happened earlier this week.

A statement from the hospital said an incident on Tuesday resulted in an outage of a number of the hospital's IT systems. PMC immediately alerted third-party forensic experts to investigate and mitigation is underway.

At this time the IT systems are still not working, but PMC officials said the care of patients remains their first priority and that their staff is well-trained to care for them without the IT systems.

"We are well-prepared and our staff is trained to continue operations while we work to get our regular IT systems back online," said the statement. " Our investigation is ongoing at this time and we will provide updates as more information is verified by the forensics team."