Larger Nursing Home Staff Size Linked To Higher Number Of COVID-19 Cases In 2020.

ABSTRACT: Staff in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are essential health care workers, yet they can also be a source of COVID-19 transmission. We used detailed staffing data to examine the relationship between a novel measure of staff size (that is, the number of unique employees working daily), conventional measures of staffing quality, and COVID-19 outcomes among SNFs in the United States without confirmed COVID-19 cases by June 2020. By the end of September 2020, sample SNFs in the lowest quartile of staff size had 6.2 resident cases and 0.9 deaths per 100 beds, compared with 11.9 resident cases and 2.1 deaths per 100 beds among facilities in the highest quartile. Staff size, including staff members not involved in resident care, was strongly associated with SNFs' COVID-19 outcomes, even after f

SUBMITTER: McGarry BE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8616631 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature