HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of Jan. 6, 2016.
- Organization as reported
- AHRC Nassau, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Jan. 6, 2016
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14636, row:5775)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
AHRC Nassau, the covered entity (CE), mailed questionnaire surveys that contained other clients’ protected health information (PHI), including 1,638 clients’ names and types of services they received from the CE. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE developed a two tier verification process in which mailing lists are checked by its information technology (IT) department and the department requesting the list. It also retrained its IT department personnel on HIPAA. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.