CDC Has Improved the Nursing Homes Reporting Process for COVID-19 Data in NHSN, but Challenges Remain

Despite Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) efforts, both CDC and nursing homes experienced difficulties during a mass enrollment of more than 12,000 facilities into the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to begin reporting COVID-19 data in May 2020. Nursing homes had to upgrade their security access levels to report the sensitive data. At the time, CDC experienced a significant backlog of support requests, inhibiting some facilities from accessing NHSN. CDC improved the process of nursing home reporting to NHSN throughout the pandemic, but challenges remain. Read the full report.