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ILLINOISPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountLowResolved

Mercy Hospital and Medical Center

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 13, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

547

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Mercy Hospital and Medical Center →

Mercy Hospital and Medical Center (IL) reported to HHS on 2016-10-13 a Loss affecting 547 individuals. Business associate Mount Carmel Health System misplaced paper documents containing PHI including names, addresses, claims information, and financial data. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, posted substitute notice on its website, and offered free credit monitoring to all affected individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films.

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 13, 2016

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed547 affectedView incident

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.