Utah : Long-term care notes

Utah reports data for long-term care facilities include Nursing Homes, Assisted Living, and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities. COVID Tracking Project puts Nursing Homes, Assisted Living, and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities into the Lumped or Other category. Utah reports cumulative and outbreak data. Utah provides facility-level data for Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities. Utah reports staff and resident cases and resident deaths separately. Utah does not report staff deaths. Data is cumulative since March 10, 2020.    Utah provides cumulative totals for resident and staff cases and resident deaths.    Utah provides outbreak data for the number of facilities with a case. Utah defines an outbreak as a facility with 1 case. An outbreak ends when 14 days have passed with no new confirmed case.    Utah’s form of reporting does not allow CTP to remove facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities from the data set.

The state provides facility-level cumulative data. The state provides facility-level outbreak data. Cumulative facility-level data was first reported by the state on 2021-02-04. Outbreak facility-level data was first reported by the state on 2020-10-22.

Because each state reports facility-level data differently, CTP has produced a number of scripts to make the dataset as standardized and comprehensive as possible. This state uses the following scripts: post_processing, standardize_data, collapse_outbreak_rows, close_outbreaks. More information on each of these scripts can be found in our Airtable Facility Script Annotations. (https://airtable.com/shr99Ep06cplrcVg6)