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Posted Mar 10, 20223 min Read
Starting on March 14, the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) is changing COVID-19 case and death reporting for LTC facilities. Please refer to updated reporting guidance document.
Long-term care facilities will no longer be required to report any information, including cases and deaths for staff and residents, through the Long-term Care COVID-19 reporting form REDCap.
*The purpose of reporting is to identify facility associated infections. Facilities do not count resident cases that were positive upon admission OR new admission that turns positive while in transmission-based precautions or staff cases that did not enter the building during the infectious period (two days before their positive test or symptoms and after the onset of symptoms or positive test).
Facilities should include the following information in their report:
A five-day follow-up is not required. Facilities should indicate on the report that it is both the initial and the follow-up report.
Information and instructions for reporting through the Incident Reporting Gateway can be found here.
Facilities ONLY need to submit an incident report through the Gateway report when the initial case meets the Outbreak Case Alert definition; it is not necessary to continue reporting new cases through the Gateway. This information will be gathered through additional outreach by IDOH.
If four weeks have passed without a new case, facilities would ONLY need to report if a new confirmed case meets the Outbreak Case Alert definition.
The following reporting guidance is unchanged: