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 11, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Kansas City VAMC, MO
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- June 11, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13368, row:4507)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), the Kansas City VA Medical Center, reported than an employee inadvertently mailed letters containing protected health information (PHI) to the wrong recipients. This breach affected 534 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following this breach, the CE implemented administrative safeguards to prevent errors of this nature from reoccurring. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.