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FLORIDAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Lee Memorial Health System

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 7, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

1,508

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Lee Memorial Health System →2 incidents on file

Lee Memorial Health System (FL) reported to HHS on 2015-09-07 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,508 individuals. The CE erroneously sent letters to ~1,600 patients containing incorrect patient names due to an administrative error. PHI involved included names, physicians' names and specialties. Breached information was located on Paper/Films. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented corrective actions including new data request procedures and workforce retraining. OCR obtained assurances of remediation.

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

Sep 7, 2015

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.Confirmed1,508 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.