Notes
North Carolina reports long-term COVID-19 data for Nursing Homes and Residential Care Facilities, which includes Adult Care Homes, Family Care Homes, Multi-unit Assisted Housing, Group Homes, and Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID). COVID Tracking Project puts Nursing Home data into the Nursing Home facilities category and Residential Care Facilities into the Lumped or other facilities category. North Carolina reports cumulative and outbreak data. NC does provide facility-level data. North Carolina provides cumulative totals for resident and staff cases combined and resident and staff deaths combined. North Carolina provides outbreak data for resident and staff cases separately and resident and staff deaths separately and number of facilities with a case. North Carolina defines an outbreak as a facility with two or more cases. An outbreak ends when 28 days have passed with no new confirmed case. Once an outbreak ends, another outbreak can occur at the same facility. North Carolina does not report data for facilities with fewer than 10 residents. North Carolina began reporting cumulative data on June 25, 2020. Interpret North Carolina’s historic data with caution.
- June 25, 2020: CTP began tracking cumulative data of resident and staff combined cases and deaths.
- September 3, 2020: Cumulative residential care facility count in Assisted Living dropped by 4.
- October 8, 2020: Cumulative facility totals in the Other category dropped from 97 to 95. Cumulative facility total in Nursing Homes dropped from 235 to 219.
- October 22, 2020: Cumulative Nursing Home facilities count decreased by 5.
- October 29, 2020: Cumulative facility total decreased for Nursing Homes.
- November 19, 2020: Cumulative nursing home staff deaths decreased by 2.
- February 11, 2021: Other number of facilities decreased by 12. Nursing home resident positives decreased by 6.
- February 18, 2021: Nursing Home Cumulative facilities impacted dropped from 358 to 347 and "Other" Cumulative facilities impacted dropped from 334 to 316.
Source links
- https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/dashboard/congregate-living-settings
- https://www.ncdhhs.gov/covid-19-case-count-nc
- https://files.nc.gov/ncdhhs/documents/files/covid-19/Weekly-COVID19-Ongoing-Outbreaks.pdf
Facility notes
The state does not provide facility-level cumulative data. The state provides facility-level outbreak data. 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: post_processing, standardize_data, close_outbreaks. More information on each of these scripts can be found in our Airtable Facility Script Annotations. (https://airtable.com/shr99Ep06cplrcVg6)