Characteristics and Quality of US Nursing Homes Reporting Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has taken an enormous toll on US nursing homes, claiming the lives of at least 7000 residents and staff across 4100 facilities and accounting for nearly 20% of COVID-19 deaths in the United States.1 On April 19, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began requiring nursing homes to report COVID-19 cases in their facilities.2 Our objective was to describe the characteristics and quality of nursing homes with COVID-19 cases in states where public health departments have begun to publicly report their statuses.