Charles Stamitoles

On October 12, 2016, Stamitoles Dental Center, the covered entity (CE), unintentionally disposed of boxes of paper medical records in a publicly accessible dumpster, potentially exposing the names, dates of birth, social security numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, clinical information and health insurance information of 4,678 individuals. The paper medical records were retrieved by the CE the following morning. The CE provided timely breach notification to HHS, to affected individuals, on its website and to the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained its workforce and adopted a new written policy governing the proper destruction and disposal of paper records. OCR obtained assurances that the CE has implemented the corrective actions listed above.