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 Jan. 10, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center, MI
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Jan. 10, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13575, row:4714)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center, reported that several of its employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme. This breach affected 2,266 individuals. The protected health information (PHI) involved included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, lab results, diagnoses, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. As a result of this breach, the CE offered credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services. Sacred Heart also set up a call center to answer questions and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI. All staff were retrained on ways to identify phishing emails and mitigate their dissemination. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.