Hundreds of confidential patient documents were put in a Dumpster during a construction project at Kansas City's Midwest Women’s Healthcare facility, according to an article on the KSHB website.
How the documents — which contained names, addresses and social security numbers — ended up in a Dumpster on the Research Medical Center campus is unknown.
The facility believes it has recovered the majority of the lost documents and has begun the process of reaching out to the patients affected, the article said.
Midwest Women’s Healthcare will also update its security measures, “including revising our document storage practice, completing refresher security training for all staff and performing ongoing audits,” a spokesperson said.
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