Bellevue Hospital phone system is down

The phone sys­tem at The Belle­vue Hos­pi­tal is cur­rently not work­ing cor­rectly, and TBH can­not receive incom­ing calls.

Joanna Ven­tura, TBH mar­ket­ing direc­tor for the hos­pi­tal, said Tues­day morn­ing that all Fron­tier phone sys­tems are appar­ently affected, and the hos­pi­tal does not know how soon their sys­tem will be up and run­ning again.

“We are in con­tact with emer­gency ser­vices,” she confirmed.

She said staff mem­bers have cell phones as well. The hos­pi­tal staff also will be talk­ing to patients and pro­vid­ing a cell phone if they need to call out today.

“A lot of patients come in and have cell phones with them,” she added, not­ing those patients are free to use cell phones in the hospital.

In cases of emer­gency, Ven­tura said res­i­dents should call 9–1-1.

She said peo­ple may come to the hos­pi­tal if they need to check other information.

Posted by Becky Brooks on Jul 3 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.