Coronavirus CT: Cases, Deaths For All Elder Care, Nursing Homes

CONNECTICUT — There have been 120 new confirmed deaths among nursing home residents attributed to the coronavirus in Connecticut, according to the latest weekly update released Thursday by the state Department of Public Health. Another 483 residents have tested positive for the virus in the past recording period, from Dec. 30, 2020 through Jan. 5, 2021.

Across the state's assisted living facilities, there have been nine new resident deaths due to COVID-19, and 67 more have tested positive in the same recording period.

In the first week of the new year, 362 nursing home employees have tested positive, along with 104 assisted living facility staffers. There have been no new employee deaths reported.

Nearly 55,000 vaccine doses have been administered in Connecticut as of Wednesday to people in phase 1a, which includes front-line healthcare workers and nursing home residents and staff. All nursing home vaccine clinics are expected to be completed by the end of next week and the state remains on track to complete all phase 1a vaccinations by the end of January, Gov. Ned Lamont said.

Connecticut nursing homes are required by the DPH and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to report on the impact of COVID-19 upon their residents and staff through the Centers 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 NHSN, which reflects the number of cases and deaths related with COVID-19 that occurred in the past week among both residents and staff. CT DPH began reporting NHSN data from June 17. Cumulative data for residents was rebaselined on July 15 and again on July 21 to account for false positives detected that week. Due to differing data collection and processing methods between NHSN and the data sources used previously DPH does not add the data before and after rebaselining due to the possibility of duplication of cases and deaths among prior and current data.

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*Three Rivers Healthcare permanently closed on Sept. 30, 2020.

**Cassena Care of New Britain permanently closed on Dec. 19, 2020

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 CT 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.

CT DPH began reporting LTC-MAP data on resident deaths associated with COVID-19 on July 8, 2020. Due to differing data collection and processing methods between LTC-MAP and the death data sources used previously, cumulative death data for residents was rebaselined on July 14, 2020. The resident death data before and after July 14, 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.

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