The report said the employee, who has been fired, conducted the thefts between Nov. 2009 and Sept. 2010, and most of the records contained patient names and diagnostic test results. Fifteen stolen records included patient addresses and either insurance identification of Social Security numbers.
Hospitals officials weren’t aware of the thefts until this past June when a relative of the mailroom employee discovered the medical records and returned them to MPMC, the report said. The hospital will pay for year of identity theft service for affected patients.
Read the San Francisco Chronicle report on the Mills-Peninsula Medical Center theft.
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