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. 9, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Cedar Springs Hospital, CO
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Loss
- Location of information as reported
- Other Portable Electronic Device
- Submission date
- Dec. 9, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12458, row:3597)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Cedar Springs Hospital, reported that a workforce member of the CE’s licensing agency, the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, lost an unencrypted external thumb drive that contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 2,283 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, lab results, medication information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. OCR provided the CE with technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Security Rule.