Weekly Hospital Respiratory Data (HRD) Metrics by Jurisdiction, National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)

NHSN monitors national and local trends in healthcare system stress and capacity for all acute care and critical access hospitals in the United States. For more information on the reporting mandate per the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements, visit: Updates to the Condition of Participation (CoP) Requirements for Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) To Report Acute Respiratory Illnesses .

For more information regarding NHSN’s collection of these data, including full reporting guidance, visit: NHSN Hospital Respiratory Data. 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, all voluntarily reported data included in this dataset 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: 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