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 Nov. 24, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Hillcrest Nursing Center, IL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- Nov. 24, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12484, row:3623)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Hillcrest Nursing Center, the covered entity (CE), reported that a former employee impermissibly accessed its electronic medical records system containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,030 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI.