Ohio : Long-term care notes

Ohio reports long-term care data on Nursing Homes, Assisted Living, Intermediate Care Facilities and Long-Term-Care Facilities. COVID Tracking Project puts Nursing Home data in the Nursing Home category, Assisted Living Facilities in the Assisted Living category, and Intermediate Care Facility  and long-term care data in the Lumped or Other category in our dataset. Ohio reports cumulative and outbreak data. Ohio provides facility-level data. Ohio reports staff and resident cases separately. Ohio reports resident deaths. Data is cumulative since April 15, 2020.

Ohio provides cumulative totals for Nursing Homes, Assisted Living and Intermediate Care Facility resident and staff cases. Ohio provides cumulative totals for Long-Term-Care Facility resident deaths.

Ohio provides outbreak data for Nursing Homes, Assisted Living and Intermediate Care Facility resident and staff cases from the last seven days.

Ohio reports facility-level data for resident and staff cases.

Ohio adjusted historical data multiple times. On February 18, 2021, Ohio added a backlog of 1,150 resident deaths. On March 2, 2021, officials changed the state's method of reporting deaths, which dropped the death count by 491.

• July 2, 2020: CTP started separating cases by facility type.
• July 30, 2020: Ohio reported a drop of 27 resident cases in other categories from the previous CTP data collection.
• January 21, 2021: Ohio did not update their online data portal with new data since January 14, 2021. Carrying over totals from January 14, 2021.
• February 18, 2021: Ohio added 1,150 previously unreported resident deaths. Ohio added a note on the Long-Term-Care Mortality Dashboard that read, “The Bureau of Infectious Diseases and the Bureau of Vital Statistics have been reconciling death data. Today’s long-term care facility death numbers reflect those included in the October to December 2020 reconciliation. Of this week’s long-term care deaths, approximately 1,150 are from that process.” Cases in Other and Assisted Living also reported decreases. Assisted Living cumulative facilities impacted dropped from 464 to 459, Resident Cumulative Cases dropped from 6567 to 6329 and Staff Cumulative Cases dropped from 5316 to 5220. “Other” facilities impacted went from 145 to 143, “Other” Resident Cases went from 1273 to 1221 and “Other” Staff Cumulative cases went from 1314 to 1291.
• March 4, 2021: Ohio changed their death reporting methods to be only based on death certificates. This resulted in the cumulative deaths in Ohio to decrease by 491.

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 2020-04-16. Outbreak facility-level data was first reported by the state on 2020-04-30.

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. More information on each of these scripts can be found in our Airtable Facility Script Annotations. (https://airtable.com/shr99Ep06cplrcVg6)