HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of June 29, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- Partnership Health Center, MT
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 29, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10629, row:1768)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Partnership Health Center, reported that an employee sent inaccurate patient data to a third-party survey vendor who then emailed the protected health information (PHI) of 8,331 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical security safeguards. Staff were retrained on methods to better protect PHI.