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 June 18, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Refresh Mental Health d/b/a Springfield Psychological, PA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 18, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12068, row:3207)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Refresh Mental Health, dba Springfield Psychological, reported that an employee sent a marketing email to 948 individuals without using the blind carbon copy function. The electronic protected health information (ePHI) involved included names and email addresses. In its mitigation efforts, the CE sanctioned the responsible employee and strengthened its administrative safeguards to better protect its ePHI.