Health Data Breach Tracker/OH

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Southwest General Health Center

953 individuals · submitted January 13, 2014

About this report

The covered entity (CE) misplaced a binder containing the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 953 individuals from its Maternity Unit. The PHI involved in the breach included names, dates of birth, medical record numbers and limited clinical information. The CE provided breach notification to affected individuals, HHS, and the media. To prevent a similar breach from occurring in the future, the covered entity strengthened its physical safeguards and retrained employees on safeguarding PHI. OCR obtained assurances that the corrective actions listed above were completed.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Southwest General Health Center
State
OH
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
953
Submission date
January 13, 2014
Breach type
Unknown
Location of information
Other
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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