Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Hunt Regional Medical Partners

3,000 individuals · submitted February 18, 2015

About this report

Vandals broke into a building storing paper protected health information (PHI) for the covered entity (CE), Hunt Regional Medical Partners. The types of PHI involved in the breach included patients' names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, claims information, and patients' chart information. Approximately 3,000 individuals were affected. Upon discovering the breach, the CE filed a police report. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE improved physical safeguards and retrained staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Hunt Regional Medical Partners
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
3,000
Submission date
February 18, 2015
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Other
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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