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 8, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Parkland Community Health Plan, Inc., TX
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- March 8, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11582, row:2721)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Parkland Community Health Plan, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee of a vendor used by its business associate (BA) mailed the protected health information of 1,682 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, and medical record numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE and BA implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards.