Total Nursing Home Death Count Drops In Second Public Data Update

By Chelsea Cirruzzo / June 22, 2020 at 5:54 PM
CMS on Thursday (June 18) issued a second public update of nursing home COVID-19 data that scrubbed about 3,000 resident deaths from the total count, which CMS attributes to obtaining more precise data. CMS publicly posted its first round of COVID-19 data on June 4 after requiring nursing homes to begin reporting COVID-19 cases and deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April. The data posted in early June listed about 32,000 total deaths, with data coming...

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