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Health

A lender put a rural hospital’s patient monitors on “service hold” overnight over a late payment

For nine hours, monitors at a small hospital showed a service message instead of patients’ vital signs while its account with Wardmore Health Capital was in dispute. Wardmore says no patients were adversely affected.