Policy Snapshot
January 19, 2024
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.
