The government counts 26,000 COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, but that's at least 14,000 deaths too low.
that it would be increasing penalties for nursing homes that fail to comply with federal infection control requirements. The administration would also be tying federal funding to the completion of infection control surveys of nursing homes, which states are responsible for carrying out.
The CMS will be posting data reported by individual nursing homes on its website this week, the agency said, and the data will be updated weekly.Nursing homes must still report outbreaks to state health departments, but there are major gaps in the state data, as well. In Texas, for example, residents' deaths are linked to nursing homes only if they happen in the facilities or within 24 hours of the patient's having been admitted to a hospital, according to the state health department.
Two medical workers transport an elderly patient from a nursing home in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 24, 2020.The CDC has periodically asked states to pass on the data they have collected on nursing home deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. But the federal government has never formally asked states to submit the data, and only some of them did, state officials told NBC News.
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