NHSN Hospital Respiratory Data (HRD) Dashboard

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Source: CDC National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).

• Data source description (updated November 15, 2024): As of October 9, 2024, Hospital Respiratory Data (HRD; formerly Respiratory Pathogen, Hospital Capacity, and Supply data or ‘COVID-19 hospital data’) are reported to HHS through CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) based on updated requirements from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). These data were voluntarily reported to NHSN May 1, 2024 until November 1, 2024, at which time CMS began requiring acute care and critical access hospitals to electronically report information via NHSN about COVID-19, influenza, and RSV, hospital bed census and capacity. Hospital bed capacity and occupancy data for all patients and for patients with COVID-19 or influenza for collection dates prior to May 1, 2024, represent data reported during a previously mandated reporting period as specified by the HHS Secretary, and data for collection dates May 1, 2024 – October 31, 2024 represent data reported voluntarily to NHSN. All RSV data through October 31, 2024 represent voluntarily reported data; as such, voluntarily reported data included in visualizations represent reporting hospitals only for a given week and might not be complete or representative of all hospitals during the specified reporting periods.
• NHSN monitors national and local trends in healthcare system stress and capacity for all acute care and critical access hospitals in the United States. Data reported by hospitals to NHSN represent aggregated counts and include metrics capturing information specific to hospital capacity, occupancy, hospitalizations, and admissions. Find more information about reporting to NHSN: https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/psc/hospital-respiratory-reporting.html.
• Data quality: While CDC reviews reported data for completeness and errors and corrects those found, some reporting errors might still exist within the data. CDC and partners work with reporters to correct these errors and update the data in subsequent weeks. Data reported as of December 1, 2020 are subject to thorough, routine data quality review procedures, including identifying and excluding invalid values from metric calculations and application of error correction methodology; data prior to this date may have anomalies that are not yet resolved. Data prior to August 1, 2020, are unavailable.
• Metrics and inclusion criteria: Many hospital subtypes, including acute care and critical access hospitals, are included in the metric calculations displayed on this page. Psychiatric, rehabilitation, and religious non-medical hospital types are excluded from calculations. For a given metric calculation, hospitals that reported those data at least one day during a given week are included in the metric calculation and the visualization.
  • For occupancy metrics through week ending October 5, 2024: hospitals that reported those data at least one day during a given week are included in the metric calculation, which are displayed as weekly averages.
  • For occupancy metrics beginning week ending October 12, 2024: hospitals that reported those data at for Wednesday during a given week are included in the metric calculation, which are displayed as single day (i.e. Wednesday) values.
• Bed type definitions: 
  • Inpatient: Total inpatient beds (including both adult and pediatric) in the facility that are currently set-up, staffed, and able to be used for a patient within the reporting period.
  • Intensive care unit (ICU): Total ICU beds (including both adult and pediatric) in the facility that are currently set-up, staffed, and able to be used for a patient within the reporting period.
• Find full details on NHSN Hospital Respiratory Data (HRD) reporting guidance, including additional information on bed type definitions at https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/psc/hospital-respiratory-reporting.html.