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 15, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- St. Martin Parish School Based Health Centers, LA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer, Electronic Medical Record, Laptop
- Submission date
- June 15, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14772, row:5911)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On June 15, 2015, St. Martin Parish School Based Health Centers reported a breach at one of its clinics, Cecilia School Based Health Center (CSBHS). The covered entity (CE) experienced a breach of protected health information (PHI) affecting 3,000 individuals when four desktop computers, one laptop, a wireless router, and several printers were stolen during an office break-in on April 30, 2016. The types of PHI involved in the breach included names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, diagnoses, and procedure codes. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. As a result of this incident, the CE conducted a post-incident risk analysis and directed staff to change and update all passwords. The CE also remotely disabled the login capability for each computer. The CE improved physical security at the CSBHS facility. In addition, the CE stated that no data is stored locally on its computers. OCR obtained assurances from the CE that it implemented the corrective actions listed above.