COVID cases, deaths rise in Wyoming nursing homes

COVID circumstances occurred in state nursing properties at a price of six per 100 residents throughout a four-week interval that ended Oct. 23. That’s the third-highest price within the nation behind New Hampshire (10.12) and Maine (9.16). It is also a slight enhance over the earlier four-week price, which stood at 4.5, based on the AARP.

Whole circumstances for the 4 weeks ending Oct. 23 had been 107. For comparability, there’s been greater than 2,200 circumstances in nursing properties for the reason that June 1, 2020 — about two and a half months into the pandemic.

Three nursing house residents died throughout the 4 weeks that ended Oct. 23, equating to a price of .17 per 100 residents. That is the sixth-highest price within the U.S., the AARP reported. 

About 44% of Wyoming’s nursing house residents are up-to-date on COVID vaccines. And just one in 5 employees are present on their immunizations. Wyoming normally trails the nation in COVID vaccination charges.

Three of 5 nursing properties in Wyoming reported no less than one employees case of the virus, or 85 circumstances in complete. That comes amid a staffing scarcity. About 60% reported that they did not have sufficient employees, a better quantity than all however three different states. 

Nonetheless, the staffing scenario is enhancing considerably. The earlier AARP report confirmed 63% of Wyoming services with shortages. On the similar time, Wyoming’s staffing points are dramatically greater than the nation as a complete. Solely 1 / 4 of U.S. nursing properties reported a employee scarcity.

Wyoming nursing properties and long-term care services had been notably laborious hit throughout the first yr of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of many state’s first notable outbreaks befell at a nursing house. And by December of 2020, greater than 50 residents of Casper long-term care services had died.