US hospital closes down after failing to recover from ransomware attack

In 2021 St. Margaret's Health in the US state of Illinois, "required a complete shutdown of the organization's computer network" after a ransomware attack. Over 2 years later and that hospital is now shutting down permanently, citing the ransomware attack as a factor in its demise. Hospital management claims the ransomware attack "halted the hospital's ability to submit claims to insurers, Medicare or Medicaid for months, sending it into a financial spiral". When compounded with a shortage of staff the hospital just couldn't continue. Yeah, the hospital should have had better security and yeah, the American health care system is fucked, but also how shit is it that a bunch of low-grade hackers can take a community's hospital away?