COLORADOAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumResolved

Rose Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 14, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

606

Confidence

98%

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Rose Medical Center, a Hospital Corporation of America facility in CO, reported to HHS on 2013-10-14 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 606 individuals. A newly hired janitorial service mistakenly disposed of patient face sheets (awaiting shredding) into recycling bins. The sheets contained PHI including demographics, SSNs, insurance info, physician info, and next-of-kin contacts. Breached information located on Paper/Films. OCR investigation led to new secured shredding procedures, SSN minimization, and staff retraining.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Oct 14, 2013

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed606 affectedView incident

Name: Rose Medical Center
norm: rose medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Rose Medical Center
norm: rose medical center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 606nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Improper disposal
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR investigation completed; CE required to institute new PHI disposal procedures

During the incident: Provided timely written notice to affected individuals, HHS, and the media
Instituted new procedure requiring all PHI documents to be disposed of directly into secured shredding bins
Launched company-wide initiative to improve safeguards for social security numbers, including removing SSNs from documents where possible
Minimized printing of documents containing SSNs
Retrained staff on the HIPAA Privacy Rule
Breast Center ceased printing duplicate face sheets and full social security numbers on face sheets
Changes made: All PHI documents must now be disposed of directly into secured shredding bins rather than recycling bins
SSN minimization initiative implemented company-wide
Staff HIPAA Privacy Rule retraining completed
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Oct 14, 2013
Raw hash: a5f30c8e1201dfaa015a43aeb11cde824c84417afcc73cd16a5e561c30b69be1

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Reporting entityRose Medical Center

Victim entityRose Medical Center

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseProvided timely written notice to affected individuals, HHS, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing