Health Data Breach Tracker/IL

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Rush System for Health

4,961 individuals · submitted December 21, 2023

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Rush System for Health, reported that an employee mailed the protected health information (PHI) of 4,961 individuals in a manner in which PHI was inadvertently disclosed. The PHI involved included names only. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the incident, the CE sanctioned the responsible individual and strengthened its administrative safeguards to better protect PHI. Staff were retrained.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Rush System for Health
State
IL
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
4,961
Submission date
December 21, 2023
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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