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A former employee at a northwestern New Mexico hospital walked off with information on nearly 7,500 patients, hospital officials said.Documents in cardboard boxes turned up in storage units near Farmington. They were taken from the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock last fall without authorization, officials said.The Indian Health Service runs the hospital on the Navajo Nation. Agency spokeswoman Jenny Notah said there's no indication that the information has been misused.She said the agency is notifying patients and Navajo communities of the breach and offering a year of identity protection services. The agency also ramped up employee training.The information included Social Security numbers, birthdates, diagnoses and insurance policy numbers.Notah said the agency delayed notifying patients at the request of law enforcement while the investigation was continuing.