The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) will be hosting two webinars on December 11 and January 7 to review important updates to reporting requirements for residents and healthcare personnel of long-term care facilities beginning January 1, 2025. Webinar registration information is provided beneath the summary of upcoming changes.
Respiratory Pathogens Reporting Requirement Changes for Residents
- Beginning January 1, 2025, facilities are required to report COVID-19, influenza, and RSV data weekly for residents, including vaccination status, cases (overall and by vaccination status), and hospitalizations with confirmed cases (overall and by vaccination status).
COVID-19 Vaccination Reporting Requirement Changes for Healthcare Personnel (HCP)
- Beginning January 1, 2025, facilities are no longer required to report COVID-19 vaccination data for HCP every week.
- Long-term care facilities (LTCF) are still required to report HCP COVID-19 vaccination data for one week per month, due on a quarterly basis, as part of a CMS Quality Reporting Program.
- The week-end date determines which month a week is included in. For example, reporting data for the week of January 27, 2025 through February 2, 2025, counts as submitting data for a week in February.
Up to Date Definition Changes for COVID-19 Vaccination Reporting
- Beginning the first week of reporting for Quarter 1 2025 (December 30, 2024 – January 5, 2025), individuals aged 65 years and older and those who are moderately or severely immunocompromised are up to date when they have received 2 doses of the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine or received 1 dose of the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine in the past 6 months.
- There is no change to the up to date definition for individuals younger than 65 years. Therefore, individuals aged less than 65 years are up to date when they have received 1 dose of the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine (any time since it was approved in August 2024).
- Updates to the surveillance up to date definition for each quarter can be found here.
Webinar Dates and Registration
Topic: NHSN LTCF Component: Respiratory Pathogens and Vaccination Updates
- Wednesday, December 11, 2024, at 12pm CST/11am MST | Register
- Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at 12pm CST/11am MT | Register
After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the webinar.
Questions
Please use NHSN-ServiceNow to submit questions to the NHSN Help Desk. The new portal can be accessed here and should be used in place of nhsn@cdc.gov, nhsntrain@cdc.gov, and nhsndua@cdc.gov. ServiceNow will help the NHSN team respond to your questions faster. Users will be authenticated using CDC’s Secure Access Management Services (SAMS), the same way you access NHSN. If you do not have a SAMS login, or are unable to access ServiceNow, you can still e-mail the NHSN Help Desk at nhsn@cdc.gov.
