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 March 20, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- Life Care Center of Attleboro, MA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Loss
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- March 20, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14849, row:5988)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
A business associate (BA), Iron Mountain, discovered that five boxes of archived paper records it was storing for the covered entity (CE), Life Care Center of Attleboro, were unaccounted for or lost. During the course of the investigation, the BA located two of the missing boxes, thus the loss affected the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 927 individuals. The records included demographic, financial, and clinical information. OCR obtained evidence of timely notification of the breach to individuals, the media and HHS and reviewed the BA agreement with Iron Mountain.