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Breach notice filed by Washington Health System (December 2016)

Organization named: Washington Health System Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Theft

What the sources say

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 Dec. 2, 2016.

Organization as reported
Washington Health System, PA
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Theft
Location of information as reported
Electronic Medical Record
Submission date
Dec. 2, 2016
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14340, row:5479)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Washington Health System Greene Home care reported that on September 27, 2016, an employee emailed a patient census list to her personal home email account and provided that information to another home health agency, Harmony Home Care (HHC). The list contained the names and addresses of approximately 544 homecare patients. Following the breach, the CE immediately sent Attestations of Destruction and Return of Patient Information letters to HHC and the former employee. The CEO of HHC signed the attestation and returned the patient list indicating that 182 letters were returned as undeliverable. The former employee indicated that she had no copies of the patient list and did not send the list to anyone else. The CE closed operations on October 30, 2016. The CE provided breach notification to 530 affected individuals and to HHS. The CE also filed reports with both the Pennsylvania State Police and the Department of Health. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 544 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Dec. 2, 2016, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 14340)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Washington Health System Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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