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 Feb. 9, 2017.
- Organization as reported
- Bloom Physical Therapy, LLC dba Physicians Physical Therapy Service, AZ
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Feb. 9, 2017
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14276, row:5415)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On February 1, 2017, the covered entity (CE), Bloom Physical Therapy, LLC dba Physicians Physical Therapy Service, erroneously sent an email regarding a change in ownership to past and current clients so that email addresses in the mailing were visible to all recipients. The email was sent to approximately 500 individuals and may have contained names as a portion of some email addresses. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE revised its policies and procedures and retrained staff. OCR provided substantial technical assistance to the CE and obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.