Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Valley Care Home Health Services, Inc.

2,674 individuals · submitted January 25, 2023

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Valley Care Home Health Services, reported that an intruder broke into its office and took a safe which stored encrypted back up hard drives containing the protected health information (PHI) of 2,674 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, local law enforcement, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE revised its policies and procedures and implemented additional physical safeguards. Staff were retrained to better protect PHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Valley Care Home Health Services, Inc.
State
CA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
2,674
Submission date
January 25, 2023
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Other Portable Electronic Device
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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