Health Data Breach Tracker/MA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Life Care Center of Attleboro

2,473 individuals · submitted March 20, 2015

About this report

A business associate (BA), Iron Mountain, discovered that five boxes of archived paper records it was storing for the covered entity (CE), Life Care Center of Attleboro, were unaccounted for or lost. During the course of the investigation, the BA located two of the missing boxes, thus the loss affected the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 927 individuals. The records included demographic, financial, and clinical information. OCR obtained evidence of timely notification of the breach to individuals, the media and HHS and reviewed the BA agreement with Iron Mountain.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Life Care Center of Attleboro
State
MA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
2,473
Submission date
March 20, 2015
Breach type
Loss
Location of information
Paper/Films
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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