Background
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued "QSO-20-29-NH" on May 6, 2020, with the subject "Interim Final Rule Updating Requirements for Notification of Confirmed and Suspected COVID-19 Cases Among Residents and Staff in Nursing Homes." It is expected that on May 9, 2020, CMS will publish an interim final rule with a comment period.
In summary, the memorandum states: "In an effort to support surveillance of COVID-19 cases and increase transparency for residents, their representatives and families, CMS has established reporting for confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases at §483.80(g3) as follows:
CMS goes on to state: "We understand that state and local health departments may currently require nursing homes to report certain COVID-19 related information to them. A key difference between the state/local reporting and this new national reporting requirement is that reporting to state/local health departments allows them to understand the status of their local environment and intervene (e.g., direct staffing and supplies), whereas this national requirement provides standardized information to assist with national surveillance on the status of COVID-19 in all nursing homes."
The regulation states, "there are a variety of ways that facilities can meet this requirement… such as web postings. We do not expect facilities to make individual telephone calls to each resident's family or their responsible party to inform them that a resident in the facility has laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. However, we expect facilities to take reasonable efforts to make it easy for residents, their representatives, and families to obtain the information facilities are required to provide."
Our Reporting Notification Process
Our facility strives to continue its efforts for transparency in communications with all interested stakeholders. It is in this effort we are creating a place for residents, families and responsible parties and our associates to look to for updated facility-specific information.
Our communication will include information on mitigating actions we are taking to prevent or reduce the risk of transmission, which can be found on this resources page.
Our data will never include personally identifiable information. It will include information about our residents and staff for the following aspects of COVID-19 reporting:
Cumulative Confirmed Infections of COVID-19 -- The cumulative number of confirmed infections of COVID-19 for staff/residents since May 1, 2020 regardless of whether or not the infections are still active.
We expect to update our data according to the guidance which is by 5 p.m. the next calendar day following the occurrence of either a single confirmed infection of COVID-19, or three or more residents or staff with new-onset of respiratory symptoms occurring within 72 hours of each other. Further, we will include a cumulative update at least weekly.
Our Commitment
Our facility is committed to providing updated and current information for our residents, families and responsible parties and associates. To these important stakeholders, if at any time you have questions about the information you see on our website or would like to discuss it further, please reach out to the Administrator of this facility.
UPDATE Beginning June 22, this facility began COVID-19 testing in compliance with the June 15 Emergency Order from MDHHS Director Robert Gordon. The testing guidance released requires all skilled nursing facilities in the state of Michigan to conduct COVID-19 testing as follows:
As a result, positive COVID-19 cases for both staff and residents may be identified. Any changes will be noted in the data set below.
The text above was last updated on: January 7, 2021
Staff
Date- New onset respirator symptom (staff)
January 7, 2021 ------- 0
Date- Confirmed infection of Covid- 19 (Staff)
January 7, 2021 ------- 0
Date- New onset respirator symptoms over the last 7 days (Staff)
January 7, 2021 ------- 0
Total of confirmed infections of Covid-19 currently (Staff)
January 7, 2021 ------- 0
Recovered from infection of Covid -19- (Staff)
21
Cumulative confirmed infections of Covid- 19 (Staff)
21
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Date- New onset respirator symptom (residents)
January 7, 2021 ------- 0
Date Confirmed infection of Covid- 19 (Residents)
January 7, 2021 ------- 0
Date- New onset respirator symptoms over the last 7 days (Residents)
January 7, 2021------- 0
Total of confirmed infections of Covid-19 currently (Residents)
January 7, 2021 ------- 0
Recovered from infection of Covid -19- (Residents)
34
Cumulative confirmed infections of Covid- 19
50
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