Evercare of Breese: Resident Medical Data Texted to Wrong Person - IL
The incident involved a staff member identified in the report as V3, who sent the text on a weekend while seeking guidance on how to care for a resident identified as R5. She meant to reach a supervisor or colleague who could help her. Instead, the message went to V10, a former LPN. V10 replied asking V3 not to message them anymore. V3 realized her mistake and stopped sending further texts about R5 or his medical care.
That instruction from a former employee was what ended it. Not a supervisor catching the error. Not a privacy protocol triggering an alert. A person who no longer worked at the facility had to say no before the messages stopped.
V3 told inspectors the text was an accident. She said she knew better than to send a resident's name and medical information by text because it isn't secure or encrypted, but it was a weekend and she needed guidance. The explanation she offered was essentially that the urgency of the moment overtook what she already understood to be wrong.
The facility's own HIPAA policy, dated June 1, 2025, covers all employees with access to personal health information, including administrative, clinical, and support staff. It defines protected health information as any information, recorded in any form, that relates to health or the provision of health care and can be linked to an individual. The policy requires training on privacy practices, security measures, and breach notification procedures, and states that violations may result in disciplinary action.
The text message containing R5's name and details about his medical care was exactly the kind of information that policy was written to protect.
After the incident came to light, a staff member identified as V1 conducted an in-service with V3 on September 8, 2025, covering why texting resident names and medical information is prohibited. V3 told inspectors she would not text resident information again.
The inspection, conducted September 18, 2025, was a complaint survey. Inspectors classified the deficiency under F0583, which covers the right of residents to privacy in their personal and medical records. The level of harm was listed as minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and the number of residents affected was described as few.
What the report does not answer is how long the text thread existed before V10 responded, whether R5 or his family was ever informed that his name and medical information had been sent to someone outside the facility, or what disciplinary action, if any, followed. The plan of correction is not included in the inspection narrative reviewed here.
R5's medical information, whatever it contained, went somewhere it was never supposed to go, read by someone who had no current role in his care, on a weekend when a nurse felt she had nowhere else to turn.
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EVERCARE OF BREESE in BREESE, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 18, 2025.
She meant to reach a supervisor or colleague who could help her.
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