TOPEKA — Governor Laura Kelly's office announced Friday that the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services and Kansas Department for Health and Environment have collaborated to create an online dashboard that makes it easier for the public to track vaccination rates among healthcare personnel in the state’s long-term care facilities in anticipation of the federal regulation requiring staff vaccinations within the nation’s more than 15,000 Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing homes.
The state’s newly launched dashboard extrapolates data specific to Kansas from the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 Long Term Care Facility Module and provides a view of the healthcare personnel vaccination rates for Kansas’s federally licensed LTCFs.
According to the dashboard as of Friday, only one Reno County Long Term Care Facility has over 70% of employees vaccinated. That is Wesley Towers with 74.5%. Good Samaritan-Hutchinson Village is just below that at 69.7% and Buhler Sunshine Home is at 65%. Prairie Sunset Home is at 63.4%.
According to the dashboard, only Brighton Place North in Topeka is at 100% as of Friday.