Coronavirus CT: 5 More Nursing Home Deaths

CONNECTICUT —There were four new resident deaths and one more staff death attributed to COVID-19 at the state's nursing homes in the past week, according to the latest update released Friday by Gov. Ned Lamont.

An additional 33 residents have tested positive for the virus, and another 38 employees have been confirmed to have COVID-19.

In the state's assisted living facilities, another resident has died due to the virus, and three new cases were confirmed. Among the staff, no new deaths were reported, but 20 more employees have tested positive for COVID-19.

Connecticut nursing homes are required by the Department of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to report on the impact of COVID-19 on their residents and staff through the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network. This reporting is intended to reflect recent COVID-19 activity in nursing homes.

The DPH weekly nursing home report uses data submitted to the NHSN, which reflects the number of cases and deaths related with COVID-19 that occurred in the past week among both residents and staff. The Connecticut DPH began reporting NHSN data from June 17. Due to differing data collection and processing methods between NHSN and the data sources used previously, cumulative data for residents was re-baselined on July 15. DPH does not add the data before and after July 15 due to the possibility of duplication of cases and deaths among prior and current data.

The following is a list of every nursing home in Connecticut with residents who have tested positive for COVID-19, along with corresponding data related to the number of residential cases and fatalities among residents in each facility.

"Confirmed" is defined as having positive lab test for COVID-19. This may include those with and without symptoms of COVID-19. "COVID-related deaths" are defined as persons with suspected or laboratory-positive COVID-19 who died.

You may navigate the table page-by-page using the arrow at its top right, or search for information using the tool in the top left of the chart:

Connecticut assisted living facilities are required by the DPH to report on the impact of COVID-19 on their residents and staff through the Long Term Care Mutual Aid Plan (LTC-MAP) web-based reporting system. This report is intended to reflect recent COVID-19 activity in assisted living facilities.

The DPH weekly assisted living report uses data submitted to LTC-MAP which reflects the number of cases and deaths associated with COVID-19 that occurred in the past week among both residents and staff.

The DPH began reporting LTC-MAP data on resident deaths associated with COVID-19 on July 8. Due to differing data collection and processing methods between LTC-MAP and the death data sources used previously, cumulative death data for residents was re- baselined on July 8.

The resident death data before and after July 8 should not be added due to the differing definitions of COVID-19 associated deaths used and the possibility of duplication of deaths among prior and current data.