Breach filing
ArchivedCHI Franciscan Health Hospice-Tacoma: 12,413 individuals, Nov 2016.
CHI Franciscan Health Hospice-Tacoma reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 28 November 2016. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Washington and lists 12,413 individuals affected, which makes it the 60th largest of the 185 Washington filings on the register and the 75th largest of the 328 filings submitted nationally in 2016. Among the 12 Washington filings made in 2016 it ranks 4th.
Individuals affected
12,413
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$1.99M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in WA
60th
of 185 Washington filings
Rank in 2016
75th
of 328 filings nationally
Section F.1 / The filing
As posted by HHS OCR
Every value below is the portal's own field for this filing, plus its rank within the register.
- Covered entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 12,413
- Breach submission date
- 28 November 2016
- Submission year
- 2016
- Type of breach
- Theft
- Location of breached information
- Laptop
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- Washington (WA)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Washington by size
- 60th of 185
- Rank in 2016 nationally
- 75th of 328
- Washington median filing
- 3,950 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- WA-20161128-chi-franciscan-health-hospice-tacoma
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Washington and in 2016
OCR classifies the incident as theft, with the breached information held in a laptop. Theft is the type recorded on 30 of the 185 Washington filings (16%) and on 19% of all filings submitted in 2016. Laptop appears on 10% of Washington filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 21% of Washington filings do involve one. At 12,413 individuals the breach is 3.1 times the Washington median filing of 3,950 and 3.1 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,884 filings. It sits in the 10,000 to 99,999 band, which holds 1,938 filings.
As of 28 August 2026 the case is listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive. OCR's closing summary of the case is reproduced in full below.
Washington's breach notification statute (RCW 19.255.010) requires notice to affected residents no later than 30 days after discovery. Its attorney general threshold: more than 500 Washington residents. The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule ran alongside it: notice to affected individuals and to HHS without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovery, which is the clock that put this filing on the portal.
Multiplying 12,413 individuals by IBM's $160 customer-PII cost per record (Cost of a Data Breach 2025, the figure the site's calculator uses) gives a modelled $1.99M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $2.38M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by CHI Franciscan Health Hospice-Tacoma. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 0.4 times the sector average.
Section F.3 / OCR closing summary
The portal's archived description, in full
Written by the Office for Civil Rights when the case was closed and reproduced verbatim from the HHS export.
CHI Franciscan Health Hospice, the covered entity (CE), reported that a backpack containing a laptop and paper copies of medical records was stolen from an employee's vehicle. The breach affected 2,413 individuals. The protected health information (PHI) involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, diagnoses, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The covered entity implemented physical and technical security safeguards, updated its risk analysis, sanctioned the workforce member, and re-trained all staff members. OCR provided technical assistance to the covered entity regarding the HIPAA Security Rule.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
12,413 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$1.99M
12,413 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$2.38M
12,413 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by CHI Franciscan Health Hospice-Tacoma to HHS, multiplied by IBM's customer-PII cost per record (Cost of a Data Breach 2025 Figure 6 and the 2026 edition). No cost has been disclosed by the entity for this filing; the figure is a planning estimate, not a fact about the breach. IBM's per-record figures come from mid-volume breaches and IBM cautions against applying them to breaches involving millions of records; the site's per-record page explains where the multiplication holds and where it breaks down.
Context: IBM's average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M in the 2026 report ($7.42M in 2025); the global average across all sectors was $4.44M in 2025.
Cost per record: method and limits / Healthcare breach cost, IBM 2026
Section F.6 / Notification clock
Washington statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Washington: RCW 19.255.010
- Notice to individuals
- No later than 30 days after discovery
- Attorney general threshold
- More than 500 Washington residents (Within the same 30-day window)
- Private right of action
- Yes: Civil lawsuits under the Consumer Protection Act; actual damages plus up to $1,000 punitive for willful violations
- Penalty
- Consumers may recover damages, costs, and attorney fees; AG may seek penalties and injunctive relief
The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule runs alongside the state statute: notice to affected individuals and to HHS without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovery.
Section F.7 / Peer filings
Washington filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Washington filings in 2016, topped up from other years where 2016 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) | Health Plan | 91,187 | 9 Feb 2016 | |||
| Franciscan Health, Highline Medical Center | Healthcare Provider | 18,399 | 1 Sep 2016 | |||
| Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho | Healthcare Provider | 10,700 | 26 Aug 2016 | |||
| Nintendo of America Inc. | Health Plan | 6,248 | 26 Feb 2016 |
Index / Companion schedules
13 HHS breach register
→Hub: every filing, by state, year and entity.
04 Biggest breaches
→Mega-breaches with primary-source cost figures.
Industry / Healthcare
→IBM 2026: $6.64M average, 13 years at #1.
Regulation / HIPAA penalties
→OCR enforcement tiers and the 60-day rule.
11 50-state laws
→Deadline, AG threshold and penalties per state.
Cost / Per record
→Where the per-record model is reliable.
Provenance
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, Breach Portal (breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), retrieved 2026-08-28. Public domain. Individuals affected and dates as reported by the covered entity.
Portal: ocrportal.hhs.gov breach report. Statutory basis: HITECH Act section 13402(e)(4): the Secretary must post a list of breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more individuals. Breaches affecting fewer than 500 individuals are reported to OCR annually and are not posted, so they are not on this register. Status wording follows the portal's two tabs ("Cases Currently Under Investigation" and "Archive") as of 28 August 2026; a filing moves to the archive when OCR closes the case. Modelled costs on this site are a method applied to the reported count, using IBM Cost of a Data Breach per-record figures, and are never a cost disclosed by the entity. This row: hhs-breach-archive__2026-08-28.csv, export row 5390.
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