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. 11, 2016.
- Organization as reported
- Charles Stamitoles, FL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Improper Disposal
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Dec. 11, 2016
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14333, row:5472)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On October 12, 2016, Stamitoles Dental Center, the covered entity (CE), unintentionally disposed of boxes of paper medical records in a publicly accessible dumpster, potentially exposing the names, dates of birth, social security numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, clinical information and health insurance information of 4,678 individuals. The paper medical records were retrieved by the CE the following morning. The CE provided timely breach notification to HHS, to affected individuals, on its website and to the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained its workforce and adopted a new written policy governing the proper destruction and disposal of paper records. OCR obtained assurances that the CE has implemented the corrective actions listed above.