Home › Case Studies

Midwest Healthcare Achieves HIPAA Compliance After Failed Audit

A regional Ohio healthcare group failed a HIPAA audit with 7 critical findings. Buckeye Telecom remediated all findings in 87 days — zero security incidents since.

7
Findings remediated
87 days
To full compliance
0
Incidents since
340+
Attacks blocked
Healthcare · Security & HIPAA

What we did

Regional Ohio healthcare provider · 4 locations · 210 staff.

MFA everywhere

Rolled out MFA across EHR, email, VPN, and cloud apps within two weeks.

Device encryption

Endpoint encryption and remote wipe on all 210 staff devices.

Next-gen firewall

Deployed a next-gen firewall with HIPAA-compliant logging and reporting.

Full HIPAA package

Policies, BAAs, risk assessment, and staff training documented end to end.

The results

All 7 findings fixed

Every critical audit finding remediated in 87 days.

Zero incidents

No security incidents in the 18 months since go-live.

340+ attacks blocked

MFA blocked 340+ unauthorized access attempts in the first six months.

Contracts renewed

Compliance confirmed on schedule; leadership gets a monthly plain-language report.

Let’s scope it together.

Talk to the Buckeye team — the owner is involved in every engagement, and there’s no advisory fee.

Talk to the team

Prefer to talk now? Call or text 614-224-2003.