HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of Dec. 18, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- Belgrade Regional Health Center, ME
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Dec. 18, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14647, row:5786)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
A business associate (BA), The Snowman Group, working on behalf of the covered entity (CE), Belgrade Health Center, erroneously mailed letters to patients containing the name of another individual due to a printing mistake, affecting 854 individuals. The protected health information involved included names and an indication of a treatment relationship with the CE. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE changed its template for letters to prevent this printing mistake from occurring again. OCR reviewed the BA agreement between the CE and the BA and obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.