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    The letter requests that the Governor focus testing efforts on nursing homes and other vulnerable communities. It provides data showing over 60,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and almost 26,000 deaths reported by approximately 80% of nursing homes in the US. The agencies are taking actions like increasing penalties for noncompliance with infection control requirements and ensuring states conduct necessary surveys. They request the Governor develop a comprehensive testing plan focusing on nursing homes and submit it to HHS to ensure new funding for testing is put to its best use.

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    The letter requests that the Governor focus testing efforts on nursing homes and other vulnerable communities. It provides data showing over 60,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and almost 26,000 deaths reported by approximately 80% of nursing homes in the US. The agencies are taking actions like increasing penalties for noncompliance with infection control requirements and ensuring states conduct necessary surveys. They request the Governor develop a comprehensive testing plan focusing on nursing homes and submit it to HHS to ensure new funding for testing is put to its best use.

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    The letter requests that the Governor focus testing efforts on nursing homes and other vulnerable communities. It provides data showing over 60,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and almost 26,000 deaths reported by approximately 80% of nursing homes in the US. The agencies are taking actions like increasing penalties for noncompliance with infection control requirements and ensuring states conduct necessary surveys. They request the Governor develop a comprehensive testing plan focusing on nursing homes and submit it to HHS to ensure new funding for testing is put to its best use.

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    May 31, 2020

    Dear Governor,

    Thank you for all of your hard work to keep your citizens safe as the nation battles the novel
    coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). Our agencies have deeply appreciated your commitment to working
    hand-in-hand with the Trump Administration thus far. We write today with another, critical request
    as we implement President Trump’s Plan to Open Up America Again.

    As you know, the Trump Administration, acting through our two agencies, the Centers for Medicare
    & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recently
    implemented an unprecedented nationwide COVID-19 surveillance system through CDC’s National
    Healthcare Safety Network for America’s Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing homes. We have
    reviewed the first tranches of data received through this system. As of May 24, 2020, approximately
    12,500 nursing homes – approximately 80 percent of the 15,400 Medicare and Medicaid-certified
    nursing homes – had reported to the CDC. These facilities reported over 60,000 confirmed COVID-
    19 cases and almost 26,000 deaths. This data, and anecdotal reports across the country, clearly show
    that nursing homes have been devastated by the virus. As we look ahead to reopening America, CMS
    and CDC are taking a number of actions to keep nursing home residents safe. First, CMS is
    increasing penalties for noncompliance with longstanding infection control requirements. CMS is
    ensuring states conduct necessary surveys of nursing homes by tying survey funding to State Survey
    Agency performance. CMS is also continuing deployment of its network of Quality Improvement
    Organizations to provide an array of assistance, and will work with governors to target assistance to
    facilities that have experienced outbreaks. CDC is assessing and providing guidance and technical
    assistance to improve infection control practices to nursing homes and state health departments.

    Attached is a chart that provides detailed information for each state regarding the data already
    reported in from each state’s nursing homes. It also includes information about the number of
    Targeted Infection Control Surveys completed by each state as of May 29, 2020. This information
    will be publicly posted by CMS on June 1, 2020, and updated data will be compiled on a rolling
    basis.

    We are also calling on you to focus your testing on nursing homes and other vulnerable communities.
    The Trump Administration recently announced that the Department of Health and Human Services
    (HHS) is delivering $11 billion in new funding to states, territories, localities,
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    Indian Health Service facilities, tribes, and urban Indian Health programs to support COVID-19
    testing. To ensure this funding is put to its highest and best use, it is absolutely imperative that each
    state develop a comprehensive testing plan, and submit that plan to HHS. CDC and CMS have
    developed guidance documents on reopening nursing homes that might help inform your plans for
    testing.

    With your help, we can win the war against COVID-19 and reopen America again.

    Sincerely,

    Robert R. Redfield, MD Seema Verma


    Director, CDC Administrator, CMS

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