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 July 3, 2017.
- Organization as reported
- Kennebunk Center for Dentistry, ME
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record, Paper/Films
- Submission date
- July 3, 2017
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14139, row:5278)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
A former dentist and dental hygienist of the covered entity (CE), Kennebunk Center for Dentistry, sent mailings to 1,900 patients, advertising the practice that they were joining. The patients’ names and addresses were taken from a call list that the dentist maintained off-site for emergency and night calls. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. As a result of the breach, the CE reviewed and retrained its staff on its policies and procedures related to uses and disclosures, safeguards and the minimum necessary standard. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.