COVID-19 Findings
Fall 2020
For Fall 2020, COVID findings and workforce demand findings have been combined into a single report for each facility type
Small Hospitals Large Hospitals Nursing Homes/Skilled Nursing Facilities Behavioral Health Clinics FQHCs and Community Clinics Primary Care Clinics Assisted Living Facilities Dental Offices/ClinicsSpring 2020 COVID-19 Workforce Rapid Response Reports
The Spring 2020 Washington Health Workforce Sentinel Network added five questions about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on health care facilities’ workforce and operations (see questions listed below).
The COVID-19 WORKFORCE RAPID RESPONSE REPORTS section provides links to reports summarizing responses to these questions for a selection of facility types. Click on a facility type to see the corresponding report.
Scroll down to the COVID-19 DASHBOARD section to explore all responses (hover over the information symbol for instructions).
Questions
- 1: Which occupations/service roles were most affected by the COVID-19 crisis at your facility?
- 2: What about your facility’s staffing arrangements made it easier or harder to respond to the emergency?
- 3/4: As a result of the crisis, what are your top workforce needs over the short and longer term that could be alleviated by new or modified policy, regulatory, and/or payment rules?
- 5: What additional workforce issues resulting from the COVID-19 emergency at your facility do you feel should be recognized and addressed?
Small Hospitals
Primary Care Clinics
Behavioral Health Clinics
FQHCs and Community Clinics
Dental Offices/Clinics
Assisted Living Facilities
Nursing Homes/SNFs
COVID-19 Dashboard
| Facility Type | Fall 2020 | Spring 2020 |
| 10/5 – 11/8 | 4/6 – 5/17 | |
| Acute care hospital (25 beds or fewer) | 13 | 14 |
| Acute care hospital (more than 25 beds) | 7 | 7 |
| Behavioral-mental health clinic/outpatient mental health and substance abuse clinic | 23 | 19 |
| Community/Retail pharmacy | 0 | 2 |
| Dentist office/dental clinic | 14 | 316 |
| Designated Crisis Responder (DCR) services | 3 | 2 |
| Federally qualified health center (FQHC) or community clinic providing care free or on sliding fee scale | 7 | 22 |
| Freestanding Evaluation & Treatment facility | 4 | 6 |
| Higher Education / Research | 6 | 9 |
| Home health care service | 3 | 7 |
| Hospice | 3 | 2 |
| Hospital/Clinical pharmacy | 4 | 4 |
| LTC – Adult family home | * | 4 |
| LTC – Assisted living facility | 22 | 19 |
| LTC – Intermediate care facility | ** | ** |
| LTC – Nursing & personal care facility | ** | ** |
| LTC – Nursing home or skilled nursing facility | 18 | 20 |
| LTC – Other nursing/personal care facility† | 2 | 0 |
| LTC – Retirement community/Independent living facility | 3 | 5 |
| Medical/diagnostic laboratory | * | 2 |
| Mobile crisis outreach team | * | 4 |
| Other‡ | 6 | 1 |
| Other out-of-facility behavioral health services¶ | 6 | 2 |
| Other residential treatment facility§ | 2 | 1 |
| Physical and/or occupational therapy | * | 4 |
| Primary care medical clinic (not FQHC or community clinic) | 16 | 13 |
| Psychiatric residential treatment facility | 4 | 6 |
| Psychiatric/substance abuse hospital | 0 | 3 |
| Public health | 0 | 1 |
| School | 3 | 6 |
| Specialty (except psychiatric/substance abuse) hospital | * | 3 |
| Specialty medical clinic | 5 | 0 |
| Substance use disorder residential treatment facility | 5 | 0 |
| Veterinary medicine | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 179 | 504 |
Notes:
*This category was collapsed into “Other” because fewer than 3 responses were received
**This category was not collected in this data collection period
†Facility types included in “Other nursing/personal care facility” by data collection period:
Fall 2020 – Adult family home, CCRC
‡Facility types included in “Other” by data collection period:
Fall 2020 – Medical and diagnostic laboratory, physical therapy, prison health, social services, specialty (except psychiatric/substance abuse) hospital
Spring 2020 – Massage therapy
¶Facility types included in “Other out-of-facility behavioral health services” by data collection period:
Fall 2020 – Mobile crisis outreach team, syringe services program, program for assertive community treatment, secure withdrawal management facility, substance use disorder clinic
Spring 2020 – CRC/HOPE programs, Designated Crisis Responder (DCR) services
§Facility types included in “Other residential treatment facility” by data collection period:
Fall 2020 – Residential behavioral health, mental and medical compromised program
Spring 2020 – Substance use disorder residential treatment facility