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Breach notice filed by Emergency Room Associates doing business as Emergency Medicine Associates (May 2016)

Organization named: Emergency Room Associates doing business as Emergency Medicine Associates Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Theft

What the sources say

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 May 19, 2016.

Organization as reported
Emergency Room Associates doing business as Emergency Medicine Associates, AZ
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Theft
Location of information as reported
Paper/Films
Submission date
May 19, 2016
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14523, row:5662)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Five months’ worth of hospital labels containing protected health information (PHI) were stolen from the car of a workforce member physician that was parked offsite from the covered entity (CE). The PHI was located in a locked briefcase within the car. The types of PHI involved in the breach included patients’ names, birthdates, ages, sex, and treatment facilities. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE filed a report with local law enforcement and retrained the workforce member involved. As a result of OCR’s investigation, the CE provided assurances that it conducted a full risk assessment and reviewed and updated its policies and procedures.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 1,067 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date May 19, 2016, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 14523)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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