Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation - Marl

Backup tapes containing the protected health information (PHI) of 716 individuals were stolen from the covered entity (CE), Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation – Marlborough, during the theft of the safe where the tapes were stored. The types of PHI involved in the breach included patients’ names, diagnoses, social security numbers, medications and Medicare numbers. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE revised its process for encrypting backup tapes. Additionally, as a result of OCR’s investigation the CE stopped using tapes to backup information at individual sites.