AARP Nursing Home Dashboard

AARP has released the August Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard, which tracks nursing home data including cases as well as resident and staff vaccination rates, and the news is alarming with COVID-19 cases increasing among staff and residents. In the four weeks ending August 22, 2021, the number of new nursing home resident cases of COVID-19 increased to 176, more than five times as many as the previous month. The number of new staff cases jumped during the same time period to 336, more than four times as many as reported in the previous dashboard.

Topeka, KS – Cases of COVID rose significantly among Kansas nursing home staff and residents over the four weeks ending July 18, according to the latest release of AARP’s Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard.

Kansas Nursing Homes are in Crisis; Residents and Staff Continue to Be at Risk