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 Nov. 8, 2017.
- Organization as reported
- The Center For Health Care Services, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Nov. 8, 2017
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14008, row:5147)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The Center for Health Care Services, the covered entity (CE), reported that a former workforce member impermissibly disclosed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 28,434 individuals to an unauthorized third party without authorization. The types of PHI disclosed included patients’ names, dates of birth, social security numbers, laboratory results, and dates of services. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained documented assurances that the CE created new policies, trained workforce members on its new policies, and improved technical safeguards to prevent similar incidents.