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 Sept. 23, 2010.
- Organization as reported
- St. Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center, Inc., IN
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- Sept. 23, 2010
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15969, row:7108)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
A St. Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center, Inc. laptop computer containing the protected health information (PHI of approximately 1,199 individuals was stolen from an employee’s home. The types of PHI involved in the breach included names, dates of birth, and in some instances, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, procedure types, physicians' names, home and work telephone numbers, and registration and medical record numbers. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, the media, and affected individuals. Following the breach, the CE encrypted its laptops, updated its policies and procedures related to safeguarding mobile devices, and implemented new procedures regarding physical security for laptops. OCR obtained documentation that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.