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 Nov. 24, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- Oak Street Health, IL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Nov. 24, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10322, row:1461)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Oak Street Health, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee of its vendor mailed the protected health information (PHI) of 3,169 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names, birthdates, addresses, phone numbers, and health insurance and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE strengthened its administrative safeguards and ended its business relationship with the vendor.