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 April 6, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- St. Luke's Health System, Ltd., ID
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- April 6, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10811, row:1950)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
St. Luke’s Health System, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee of its business associate (BA) inadvertently mailed the protected health information (PHI) of 15,246 individuals to the wrong recipient. The PHI involved included names, financial information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE and BA corrected and updated the printing system to prevent similar incident in the future.