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 July 26, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Steward Medical Group, FL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- July 26, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11280, row:2419)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Steward Medical Group, reported that two former employees impermissibly accessed the protected health information (PHI) of 2,188 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, clinical information, medications, and the last 4 digits of Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice its website. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards. Workforce members were retrained to better protect PHI.