Essex Residential Care LLC, doing business as Hackensack Meridian Health, West Caldwell Care Center
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Full breach record for Essex Residential Care LLC, doing business as Hackensack Meridian Health, West Caldwell Care Center →Regulator's decision — not a breach notification
This record is a regulator's decision, not the organisation's own breach notice. Breach-notification fields (discovery date, notification clock) are structurally absent — what this source establishes is the outcome and the provisions the decision cites.
HHS OCR imposed a $100,000 civil money penalty on Hackensack Meridian Health, West Caldwell Care Center (WCCC) for failing to provide timely access to a patient's protected health information. WCCC failed to respond to a personal representative's request for medical records within the required 30-day timeframe, delaying provision of records for 161 days. WCCC waived its right to a hearing and agreed to pay the penalty.
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Incident timeline — partial
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Breach window unknown
Apr 1, 2024
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No linked breach filing · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a breach filing is linked. This record is the regulator's action, not a breach notice. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
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Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
Source ceiling
- instrument + outcome
- amount as filed (USD)
- CFR provisions
- the breach it recites
- discovery date
- notification clock
The dates the agreement recites belong to the underlying breach, years earlier, and are kept as evidence of WHICH breach rather than as this record’s timeline.