West Virginia: Long-term care

West Virginia reports cumulative and outbreak data for long-term care facilities. West Virginia reports staff and resident cases, and combined total for staff and resident deaths. Cumulative data is calculated by CTP by lining up historical facility-level data, removing any duplicate cases and deaths and totaling. Active and closed outbreaks are listed on West Virginia’s dashboard, but cases and deaths for closed outbreaks are removed from WV’s dashboard if more than 14 days have passed since that facility’s last outbreak. West Virginia defines an outbreak as one lab confirmed case within 14 days, and is active until 14 days after the last confirmed case. West Virginia releases facility-level data. They do not include the facility type.

June 15-July 9, 2020: West Virginia did not update the Long-Term Care dashboard.

July 9, 2020: West Virginia kept all facility totals from the previous month except for one facility - Eldercare Health and Rehabilitation in Jackson County. On June 15, 2020, this facility reported 71 resident cases, 32 staff cases, 15 total deaths. On July 9, 2020, these cases and deaths were removed and replaced by 1 staff case and the facility was marked as an “active” outbreak. West Virginia defines an active outbreak as “two lab confirmed cases within 14 days of one another, and is active until 14 days after the last confirmed case.”

August 13, 2020: West Virginia added previous outbreaks back into the cumulative totals.

November 5, 2020: Cumulative facilities went down from 123 to 106.

November 12, 2020: West Virginia no longer shares cumulative resident positives, staff positives or deaths. CTP carried previous cumulative totals. The number of reporting facilities dropped by one. Between data collected 11/4 and data collected from 11/5 there were drops in resident cases (drop of 93) and staff cases (drop of 66). The state is now only updating long-term care data on Fridays.

January 7, 2021: No update from West Virginia. Data from December 31, 2020 carried over.

January 14, 2021: West Virginia’s dashboard says data has not been updated since 12/29. But a comparison since we gathered data on December 29, 2020 and carried it over on January 7, 2020 shows the data has updated since last week. We have changed the date of the data to today. One facility on today’s spreadsheet, Princeton Health Care Center was missing two cells of data that have been there in previous weeks. CTP carried over that data, specifically 54 cumulative resident cases and 45 cumulative staff cases, from last week. We are reaching out to West Virginia about these issues and will update this note as we receive more information.

Case totals include confirmed and probable cases.