Oregon health Q&A: Can I check state data on long-term care facilities and respiratory outbreaks?

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Q:

Where can I find current data regarding respiratory outbreaks in long-term care facilities? Also, the number of long-term care residents who are hospitalized, and the number who die, due to respiratory infections. Thank you.

– Cynthia, Corvallis

A:

Cynthia, admittedly, there is no one-stop shop for the information you’re looking for.

Outbreaks of COVID-19, flu and RSV at long-term care facilities (as well as other settings) in Oregon are shown on OHA’s

Respiratory Virus Data dashboard.

It does not show individual facilities, but rather a statewide total, and it’s updated weekly.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collects weekly data on COVID-19, RSV and flu at nursing homes that are certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). You can find this information on the CDC’s

Nursing Home Data dashboard

, which shows data at the national and state levels, but not for individual nursing home facilities. You’ll see data for cases and hospitalizations (as well as vaccination status) for these diseases among nursing home residents, as well as COVID-19 vaccination status among staff.

CMS keeps similar data, including for individual nursing homes, but it’s for COVID-19 only. However, although the data is traditionally updated on a weekly basis, the most recent update happened in Jan. 2025. CMS has told us they have paused this data, and we are unclear when or if they will resume updates.

But for historic purposes, you can still go to

this main page

, then click on the “View Data” tab, and you’ll be taken to an interactive database that you can filter for a number of criteria, including city, state, the name of the facility, hospitalizations, deaths, and more.

Alternatively, if you click on the “Visualization” tab, you’ll see a map where you can enter a city or ZIP code, or you can just zoom in on an individual facility and see data for COVID-19 cases among residents, as well as COVID-19 vaccination status among residents and staff. Again, this data has not been updated since Jan. 2025.

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