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 6, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Hospice Care Plus, Inc., KY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- May 6, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13419, row:4558)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Hospice Care Plus, Inc., reported that an employee left a company laptop containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 2,033 individuals at a previous home. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, birthdates, diagnoses, medications prescribed, clinical information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE sanctioned management and the employee. The CE also implemented additional technical and security safeguards and retrained its staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the aforementioned corrective actions.