VDH will be launching a new reporting portal sometime next week which will allow nursing facilities to enter both positive and negative test results for residents and staff as required under the interim final rule. Until that time, VDH is requesting nursing facilities continue to use the VDH Electronic Morbidity Reporting Portal to submit positive COVID-19 test results. To meet the requirement of reporting all results, negative test results should be maintained as a spreadsheet and sent to the local health department.

Please review these instructions on how to use the Electronic Morbidity Reporting Portal.

In summary,

• all negative and positive cases are required to be reported to VDH Local Health Departments (Note: labs report molecular test results; you would be responsible for reporting any point-of-care testing results).
• Reporting of positive cases to OLC via the Facility Reported Incident (FRI) process should continue.
• You should continue your weekly NHSN reporting.