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 May 7, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Shands Teaching Hospitals and Clinics, Inc., FL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- May 7, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12162, row:3301)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Shands Teaching Hospitals and Clinics, Inc., reported that an employee impermissibly accessed the protected health information (PHI) of 1,562 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, and lab and/or imaging results. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. The CE also provided complimentary credit monitoring services. In its mitigation efforts, the CE sanctioned the responsible employee, strengthened its administrative safeguards, and retrained its staff.