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 Aug. 6, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- Aug. 6, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11965, row:3104)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital, reported that an employee impermissibly accessed the protected health information (PHI) of 10,333 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, health insurance information, medical record numbers, clinical information, and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. Workforce members were retrained on methods to better protect its PHI.