MISSOURIAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

VNA Health Group

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 17, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

517

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for VNA Health Group →

VNA Home Health and Hospice reported to HHS on 2021-03-17 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 517 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee failed to use BCC on a mass email, exposing names, email addresses, and treatment information. The entity sanctioned the employee, retrained staff, and provided substitute notice.

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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

Mar 17, 2021

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.Confirmed517 affectedView incident

Name: VNA Health Group
norm: vna health
Domain: vnahg.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: VNA Health Group
norm: vna health
Domain: vnahg.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 517nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided the CE with technical assistance

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Sanctioned the responsible workforce member
Retrained staff on the proper methods of safeguarding ePHI when sending mass emails
Changes made: Retrained staff on the proper methods of safeguarding ePHI when sending mass emails
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: Mar 17, 2021
Raw hash: 9654839c2bcdb5d44a84bc916d9ff4aca6064e7a93a487bed8f23093df5994f3

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Reporting entityVNA Health Group

Victim entityVNA Health Group

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing