Notes
Kentucky reports long-term care COVID-19 data for Long-Term-Care facilities which includes Nursing Home Facilities, Assisted Living and Personal Care Homes. COVID Tracking Project puts Long-Term Care facility data in the Lumped or Other category in our dataset. Kentucky reports cumulative and outbreak data. Kentucky does provide facility-level data. Kentucky reports resident and staff cases and deaths separately. Data is cumulative since March 7, 2020.
Kentucky provides cumulative totals for resident and staff cases and resident and staff deaths and number of facilities that reported a case.
Kentucky provides outbreak data for resident and staff cases. Kentucky reports the “number of new cases” for residents and staff. COVID Tracking Project uses this metric for Kentucky’s outbreak data.
Kentucky reports facility-level data.
On January 7, 2021, Kentucky stopped reporting cumulative facility-level data. The information was replaced with data that is cumulative since December 31, 2020, and does not include data from 2020.
- July 2, 2020: Kentucky reconciled cases and deaths, resulting in a large increase in reported data.
- August 3, 2020: Kentucky started providing data by Nursing Homes and Skilled Nursing Facilities, Assisted Living Facilities and Personal Care Homes. Personal Care Homes is categorized as Other in the dataset. Prior to this day, CTP did not categorize by facility type as this data wasn’t available.
- January 7, 2021: Kentucky stopped reporting cumulative facility-level data. According to KY's long-term care page, "Today’s data only contains cases that are current in 2021. It includes all new cases since 12-31-2020. Facilities without current cases have been removed."
Source links
- https://chfs.ky.gov/agencies/dph/covid19/LTCupdate.pdf
- https://govstatus.egov.com/kycovid19
Facility notes
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 2020-05-15. Outbreak facility-level data was first reported by the state on 2020-06-04.
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: special KY scripts, post_processing, standardize_data. More information on each of these scripts can be found in our Airtable Facility Script Annotations. (https://airtable.com/shr99Ep06cplrcVg6)