CALIFORNIAHHS OCRFirst filing
Filed Oct 25, 2013bd_cba28d63134239b1
Good Samaritan Hospital (operated as Samaritan Regional Health System) reported a breach to HHS on 2013-10-25 affecting 3,833 individuals. The covered entity mismatched names and addresses in a mailing to former patients of a recently deceased physician, exposing the PHI (names and addresses) of approximately 2,203 individuals. Remediation included staff retraining on address validation and new audit procedures for mailings.
Affected (this filing): 3,833
HHS notified