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 Sept. 25, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- Kindred Nursing Centers West, L.L.C., CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer
- Submission date
- Sept. 25, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14701, row:5840)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On August 31, 2015, the covered entity (CE), Kindred Nursing Centers West, LLC, discovered that a password-protected office computer had been stolen from a locked office within its facility. The types of protected health information (PHI) contained in computer included the names of 1,125 patients and one or more of the following: admission and discharge dates, facility names, patient ID numbers, and certain accounting-related information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, the affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained assurances that the CE improved its physical safeguards, revised its encryption policy, strengthened its password requirements, and retrained workforce members.