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 June 15, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Shoreline, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- June 15, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13782, row:4921)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital, discovered that documents, containing patients’ protected health information (PHI), were stolen from one of its resident physician’s vehicles at the resident’s home on April 16, 2018. The PHI potentially affected included the names, dates of birth, dates of service, genders, ages, diagnoses, medical record numbers, and account numbers of approximately 1,805 individuals. As a result of the breach, the CE improved safeguards, updated its policies and procedures, and trained its workforce members on better practices to protect PHI. Further, the CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.