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 13, 2025.
- Organization as reported
- PACE Greater New Orleans, LA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- March 13, 2025
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9406, row:545)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), PACE Greater New Orleans, reported that an employee emailed the protected health information (PHI) of 715 individuals to her personal email account. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals and the media. In response to the breach, the CE and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards, and retrained its workforce members to better protect its PHI.