IOWAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)LowResolved

Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 8, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

557

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Central Iowa Hospital Corporation →3 incidents on file

Blank Children's Hospital (Central Iowa Hospital Corporation) reported to HHS on 2017-12-08 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 557 individuals. Patient information was sent to wrong recipients due to a column misalignment in a spreadsheet, exposing names, addresses, and zip codes (Paper/Films). BCH notified affected individuals, provided substitute notice, updated privacy and mailing training, added PHI safeguards, and retrained the responsible employee.

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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

Dec 8, 2017

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.Confirmed557 affectedView incident

Name: Central Iowa Hospital Corporation
norm: central iowa hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Central Iowa Hospital Corporation
norm: central iowa hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Also named: Central Iowa Hospital Corporationdba oflegal entity
Blank Children's Hospitaldba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 557nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSProvided documentation of corrective steps to OCR
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified all affected individuals
Provided substitute notice
Updated privacy training including mailing procedures
Privacy officer conducted internal investigation
Additional safeguards put in place to protect PHI
Retrained the employee responsible for the breach
Changes made: Updated privacy and mailing procedure training
Implemented additional PHI safeguards
Retraining of responsible employee
Internal investigation by privacy officer
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: Dec 8, 2017
Raw hash: 6d833fd9ba00eaf36ed9753ec6701cc6453ef94c857c971cf34ddf7150b4c6f3

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Reporting entityCentral Iowa Hospital Corporation

Victim entityCentral Iowa Hospital Corporation

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseNotified all affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing