An estimated 91 percent of nursing home staff nationwide received the required COVID-19 vaccine doses, and an estimated 56 percent of staff nationwide received a booster dose

An estimated 91 percent of nursing home staff nationwide received the required COVID-19 vaccine doses, and an estimated 56 percent of staff nationwide received a booster dose

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Contributor(s):
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Inspector General. Office of Audit Services, issuing body.
Publication:
[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, June 2022
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
COVID-19 Vaccines
Government Regulation
Nursing Homes
Vaccination Coverage
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
Why OIG Did This Audit. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit nursing homes particularly hard. To reduce the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services amended the infection control requirements for nursing homes to include a requirement for nursing homes to ensure that staff received all of the required COVID-19 vaccine doses (i.e., a single-dose vaccine or all required doses of a multidose vaccine) except for individuals granted an exemption from receiving the vaccine or individuals whose vaccination had to be delayed. Our objective was to identify the COVID-19 vaccination status of nursing home staff as of the week ended March 27, 2022. How OIG Did This Audit. We used a stratified multistage design to select a sample of nursing home staff nationwide. We stratified the sampling frame of 15,224 nursing homes nationwide into 10 strata based on the nursing homes’ locations and randomly selected 10 nursing homes from each stratum. From each of the 100 sampled nursing homes, we obtained a list of staff members who were subject to the vaccination requirements and randomly selected 10 staff members. For each of the 1,000 sampled staff members, we reviewed documentation that nursing homes provided to determine whether the staff member had received the required vaccine doses, had received a booster dose, or had requested or had been granted an exemption from receiving the vaccine.
Copyright:
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Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (22 pages))
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NLM Unique ID:
9918681584206676 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918681584206676