MISSOURIAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

St. John's Mercy Medical Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 9, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

1,907

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for St. John's Mercy Medical Group →2 incidents on file

St. John's Mercy Medical Group reported to HHS on 2010-08-09 a Improper Disposal affecting 1907 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. The covered entity improperly disposed of patients' Protected Health Information (PHI), by placing the PHI in a dumpster outside of a doctor's office.

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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

Aug 9, 2010

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.Confirmed1,907 affectedView incident

Name: St. John's Mercy Medical Group
norm: st john s mercy medical
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: St. John's Mercy Medical Group
norm: st john s mercy medical
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,907nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial 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: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified all affected individuals of the breach
Posted a notice about the incident on its website
Attempted to retrieve and track all of the medical records that were inappropriately disposed of
Offered all affected individuals identity theft protection
Obtained a formal apology from and assumed direct office operations management of the physician involved
Re-educated its workforce to reinforce policies relating to appropriate medical record protection and disposal requirements
Changes made: Re-educated its workforce to reinforce policies relating to appropriate medical record protection and disposal requirements
Assumed direct office operations management of the physician involved
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.

Evidence ladder

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: Aug 9, 2010
Raw hash: d5b6e75aa39b8c7f8f73270e0d2a23246a03f78a52c3b7089f1e1cc056e77cfe

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Reporting entitySt. John's Mercy Medical Group

Victim entitySt. John's Mercy Medical Group

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseNotified all affected individuals of the breach

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing