Nationally, about 84% of residents are now vaccinated, which has slowed - but not totally prevented - the spread of the delta variant among frail patients.
population, but they have borne a crushing burden from the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for more than 150,000 deaths, or roughly 1 in 5. Nursing home residents are a tiny proportion of the U.S. “We want to give people a new tool to visualize this data to help them make informed decisions,” Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a statement. Consumers will be able to compare up to three nursing homes at the same time, and the webpage shows vaccination rates for residents and staff, as well as national and state averages. The information is now being made available through the “ Care Compare ” feature at, the online tool for basic research on quality and safety issues at nursing homes. WASHINGTON (AP) - Families and patients have a new online tool to compare COVID-19 vaccination rates among nursing homes, Medicare announced Tuesday, addressing complaints from consumer groups and lawmakers that the critical data had been too difficult to find.
