There 's an update to the update below . The incident was reported to HHS as impacting Community 113,528 patients ' records . Original post : There 's an update to a breach reported previously on this site . From a statement on their site : Community Mercy Health Partners ( CMHP ) and its hospitals , Springfield Regional Medical Center and Mercy Memorial Hospital , are committed to protecting the confidentiality of our patients ' personal information and are providing this notice concerning an incident involving some of that information . On November 27 , 2015 , law enforcement contacted CMHP and advised us that CMHP 's patient records were found in a public recycling dumpster . CMHP employees immediately went to the recycling site , retrieved all the documents in the dumpster , and began an internal investigation . Our investigation determined that a CMHP vendor had inadvertently disposed of the lab records in the dumpster on November 25 , 2015 . The lab records may include patients ' names , physicians ' names , accession numbers , types of study , guarantor information , health insurance information , diagnoses , other clinical information , and in some instances Social Security numbers and driver 's license numbers . This incident did not affect all CMHP patients but in an abundance of caution we began mailing letters on January 25 , 2016 . We also established dedicated call center for patients to call with any questions . If you believe you are affected but do not receive a letter by February 15 , 2016 , please call 1 - 877 - 810 - 8083 between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Eastern Time . We also recommend that affected patients review the explanation of benefits they receive from their health insurer . If they see services that they did not receive , please contact the insurer immediately . CMHP regrets any inconvenience this incident may have caused our patients . To help prevent this from happening in the future , we have taken steps to re - inventory all document storage locations , significantly reduced or eliminated retention of paper documents when the information is electronically available , and re - educated our facilities management contractors on the requirements for physical storage relocation projects . ;