Willow Bend Dental

The covered entity, (CE), Willow Bend Dental, reported that on or about August 09, 2016, while in the process of transporting boxes of old patient charts for disposal, a locked trailer containing boxes of patient charts was stolen from the CE's parking lot. These charts contained approximately 625 patients’ protected health information (PHI) including diagnoses, lab results, and medications. In response to the incident the CE immediately alerted the authorities and by September 1, 2016, had recovered all records believed to be involved in the incident. As a result of this breach, the CE retrained all workforce members regarding the uses and disclosures of PHI and on its revised record retention and disposal policy. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals and the media. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.