FEDERALAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICLow
Borgess Medical Center
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Full breach record for Borgess Medical Center →Borgess Medical Center reported an impermissible disclosure of protected health information affecting 700 patients due to an error in a mail merge process on April 13, 2015. The breach resulted in the mixing of patient names and addresses, exposing their names, medications, and association with Borgess Rheumatology. In response, the center implemented a new data verification process, retrained workforce members, and added quality checks for spreadsheets with patient information.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed700 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Feb 5, 2016
- Raw hash
- 76b4beef18b781b4a31118f7c26aa5dd3a73bc4f3004cbee264faf402ecf1b3a
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Borgess Medical Centernorm: borgess medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Borgess Medical Centernorm: borgess medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 700
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.OCR obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions.
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.