The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new tool to compare COVID-19 vaccination rates for nursing home staff and residents on Medicare Care Compare. Vaccination data is now available in a user-friendly format to help people make informed decisions when choosing a nursing home for themselves or a loved one. CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are also continuing to use this data to monitor vaccine uptake among residents and staff and to identify facilities that may need additional resources or assistance to respond to the pandemic.
Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing homes have been required to report weekly COVID-19 vaccination data for both residents and staff since May, and CMS has been posting the information on the CMS COVID-19 Nursing Home Data website. The addition of this new consumer-friendly data feature is another valuable tool for patients, residents, and families to understand the quality of nursing homes when making health care decisions.
Read more:
- COVID-19 Nursing Home Data: https://data.cms.gov/covid-19/covid-19-nursing-home-data
- Medicare Care Compare: https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/