Health Data Breach Tracker/MI

Healthcare Provider · Archived

ProMedica Bixby Hospital

3,472 individuals · submitted November 12, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), ProMedica Bixby Hospital, reported that multiple employees impermissibly accessed the protected health information (PHI) of 3,472 individuals without a business or clinical reason. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, health insurance information, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. In response to the breach, the CE notified HHS, the affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE offered complimentary credit monitoring services, established a call center for questions or concerns, sanctioned the employees involved, and retrained its workforce.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
ProMedica Bixby Hospital
State
MI
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
3,472
Submission date
November 12, 2020
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Electronic Medical Record
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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