Tennessee: Long-term-care historical data

Tennessee reports long-term care data for Nursing Homes, Assisted Care Living Facilities, and Residential Homes for the Aged which are licensed by the Tennessee Department of Health. Residential Homes for the Aged are put in the other category. Tennessee reports outbreak data for cases and deaths at the facility-level, separated by type of facility. Tennessee defines an outbreak when a facility has 2 or more confirmed cases among residents and staff within 28 days. Data is updated weekly. Tennessee reports facility-level data.

June 15, 2020: Tennessee began reporting resident and staff cases separately at the facility-level

July 2, 2020: Tennessee provided CTP with cumulative staff and resident cases and cumulative resident deaths in long-term care facilities. CTP has not received an update since and has carried over that cumulative total until the most recent data collection.

August 13, 2020: Tennessee began reporting resident and staff data separately for cumulative totals.

January 28, 2020: Tennessee changed category titles in their “Current Facilities With Cases List” from “Resident Census” to “Facility # Non-Staff” and “Resident COVID Cases” to “Total Non-Staff.” The process for documenting theses two data fields remains the same.

February 11, 2021: LTC number of facilities decreased by 7.