Acadia Hospital Employee Emails Patient Information
A Northern Light Acadia Hospital employee emailed a Bangor Daily News (“BDN”) reporter in response to a request for unrelated information, mistakenly sending an email with an attached file that contained information related to certain patients, Northern Light Acadia Hospital says.
Upon noticing the mistake, both the employee and BDN was contacted regarding the inadvertent disclosure.The reporter who received the file attachment confirmed that the patient information was not shared with anyone else and the file was permanently deleted and destroyed.