McAfee glitch causes trouble in RI emergency rooms

Nancy Jean, a spokeswoman for the Lifespan system of hospitals, says they had to turn away non-trauma patients from their ERs. She says they fixed the problem by late Wednesday afternoon.

ERs at Hasbro Children's Hospital, Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital, the state's largest, all in Providence as well as at Newport Hospital, the only hospital on Aquidneck Island, were turning away non-trauma patients, but still treating life-threatening and serious injuries.

Jean says they also canceled some elective surgeries.

Lifespan represents about a third of the state's hospitals.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Health says no other hospitals reported a problem.