May 2, 2024- COVID-19 data reporting requirements, including COVID-19 admissions, ICU capacity, and other related statistics for hospitals have recently changed. The Department for Health and Human Services stated that April 30, 2024 is the last day hospitals must report their COVID-19 data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).
Required data included how many adult and pediatric patients were admitted to a reporting hospital for COVID-19, whether those patients’ conditions were laboratory-confirmed or suspected and whether they were being cared for in an ICU.
The CDC is continuing to encourage voluntary self-reporting of hospital data. It will begin making voluntary data available for online viewing beginning May 10, per its COVID Data Tracker webpage.