Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Kindred Nursing Centers West, L.L.C.

1,125 individuals · submitted September 25, 2015

About this report

On August 31, 2015, the covered entity (CE), Kindred Nursing Centers West, LLC, discovered that a password-protected office computer had been stolen from a locked office within its facility. The types of protected health information (PHI) contained in computer included the names of 1,125 patients and one or more of the following: admission and discharge dates, facility names, patient ID numbers, and certain accounting-related information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, the affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained assurances that the CE improved its physical safeguards, revised its encryption policy, strengthened its password requirements, and retrained workforce members.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Kindred Nursing Centers West, L.L.C.
State
CA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,125
Submission date
September 25, 2015
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Desktop Computer
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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