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Dignity Health Medical Foundation
ArchivedSubmitted 12/19/2017
Updated 19 hours ago ()
- State
- CA
- Covered entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 2,189
- Business associate present
- Yes
- Type of breach
- Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of breached information
- Paper/Films
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Sep 23, 2026
- Last seen in OCR export
- Oct 25, 2026
OCR description
Dignity Health Medical Foundation (DHMF), the covered entity (CE), discovered that it business associate (BA), Admail, mailed protected health information (PHI) to the wrong recipients due to a programmer’s error. This breach affected 2,189 individuals and the PHI involved included names and addresses. DHMF’s investigation revealed that Admail failed to use appropriate quality control measures and did not follow its policies and procedures. DHMF required Admail to revise its standard operating procedure to include additional measures aimed at protecting sensitive data. The employee responsible for this breach was sanctioned and retrained.
Change history
- Sep 23, 2026Added to OCR's archive list
Source: HHS OCR Breach Portal, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights about this source
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