(Nov. 1, 2024) – Most hospitals, including Critical Access Hospitals, must begin submitting weekly COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syntactical virus data starting the week of Nov. 3. Beginning in January 2025, freestanding and hospital-based inpatient rehabilitation facilities and inpatient psychiatric facilities will report annually.
Data collection forms and instructions, including the hospital respiratory data protocol, are available on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's respiratory data website. The data is to be reported through the National Healthcare Safety Network system.
Hospitals may send questions to NHSN@cdc.gov using the subject line "Hospital Respiratory Data."
--Sally Othmer