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 Feb. 18, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- Hunt Regional Medical Partners, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Other
- Submission date
- Feb. 18, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14879, row:6018)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Vandals broke into a building storing paper protected health information (PHI) for the covered entity (CE), Hunt Regional Medical Partners. The types of PHI involved in the breach included patients' names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, claims information, and patients' chart information. Approximately 3,000 individuals were affected. Upon discovering the breach, the CE filed a police report. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE improved physical safeguards and retrained staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.