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 Oct. 11, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- West Sound Treatment Center, WA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer
- Submission date
- Oct. 11, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13660, row:4799)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity’s (CE) Operations Director allowed her husband, a non-employee to access the CE’s office and computer in an effort to aid her with her work. The computer had access to the CE’s electronic medical records system which contained approximately 2,531 individuals’ electronic protected health information (ePHI). The ePHI potentially affected by the breach included names, social security numbers, addresses, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, lab results and medications. In response to the breach incident, the CE sanctioned its workforce member. Following OCR’s investigation, the CE provided breach notification to the affected individuals and the media, updated its policies and procedures, and retrained workforce members.