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Article: 175 patients apparently got personal info stolen
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- September 26, 2009
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Social security numbers and other personal information for 175
patients of Penrose Hospital's imaging department were apparently
stolen this month.
No arrests have been made, and no one has been put on leave or
fired, but Colorado Springs police and Penrose-St. Francis Health
Services are investigating. Centura Health, which oversees Penrose,
is paying for a year of ID theft protection for the affected
patients.
Penrose officials say that the first week of September, someone
apparently took a binder containing a list of patients who received
outpatient ultrasounds at Penrose in August and early September.
Included in the list, which was used to keep track of patient
visits, were names, ...