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. 30, 2017.
- Organization as reported
- Mercy Hospital Logan County, OK
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Loss
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Aug. 30, 2017
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14080, row:5219)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On July 1, 2017, the covered entity (CE), Mercy Hospital Logan County, discovered that a binder was missing from its Laboratory Department that contained the protected health information (PHI) of 629 individuals. The PHI included patients’ names, medical record numbers, and information related to four clinical tests. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE ceased manually recording patients’ test results in a binder and began entering them into its electronic system. Also, the CE implemented a procedure that restricts access to the laboratory and increased physical security for the laboratory. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.