West Sound Treatment Center

The covered entity’s (CE) Operations Director allowed her husband, a non-employee to access the CE’s office and computer in an effort to aid her with her work. The computer had access to the CE’s electronic medical records system which contained approximately 2,531 individuals’ electronic protected health information (ePHI). The ePHI potentially affected by the breach included names, social security numbers, addresses, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, lab results and medications. In response to the breach incident, the CE sanctioned its workforce member. Following OCR’s investigation, the CE provided breach notification to the affected individuals and the media, updated its policies and procedures, and retrained workforce members.