COVID-19 Findings
Starting in the Spring of 2020, Washington’s Health Workforce Sentinel Network began asking about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on health care facilities’ workforce and operations. Use the dashboard below to explore responses by facility type for each data collection period.
Facility Type | Fall 2021 | Spring 2021 | Fall 2020 | Spring 2020 |
10/2 – 11/7 | 4/9 – 5/23 | 10/5 – 11/8 | 4/6 – 5/17 | |
Acute care hospital (25 beds or fewer) | 8 | 24 | 13 | 14 |
Acute care hospital (more than 25 beds) | 4 | 17 | 7 | 7 |
BH – Behavioral-mental health clinic | 26 | 23 | 23 | 19 |
BH – Designated Crisis Responder (DCR) services | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
BH – Freestanding Evaluation & Treatment facility | 3 | 7 | 4 | 6 |
BH – Mobile crisis outreach team | 3 | 5 | * | 4 |
BH – Other residential treatment facility§ | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
BH – Outpatient substance use disorder treatment | 4 | ** | ** | ** |
BH – Psychiatric residential treatment facility | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
BH – Psychiatric/substance abuse hospital | * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
BH – Substance use disorder residential treatment facility | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
Community/Retail pharmacy | 2 | 12 | 0 | 2 |
Dentist office/dental clinic | 158 | 13 | 14 | 316 |
Federally qualified health center (FQHC) or community clinic providing care free or on sliding fee scale | 19 | 9 | 7 | 22 |
Higher Education / Research | 5 | 4 | 6 | 9 |
Home health care service | 6 | 6 | 3 | 7 |
Hospice | 0 | * | 3 | 2 |
Hospital/Clinical pharmacy | 1 | 15 | 4 | 4 |
LTC – Adult family home | 0 | 4 | * | 4 |
LTC – Assisted living facility | 34 | 11 | 22 | 19 |
LTC – Intermediate care facility | ** | ** | ** | ** |
LTC – Nursing & personal care facility | ** | ** | ** | ** |
LTC – Nursing home or skilled nursing facility | 36 | 12 | 18 | 20 |
LTC – Other nursing/personal care facility† | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
LTC – Retirement community/Independent living facility | 6 | * | 3 | 5 |
Medical/diagnostic laboratory | * | 7 | * | 2 |
Other hospital | 3 | ** | ** | ** |
Other out-of-facility behavioral health services¶ | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 |
Other‡ | 8 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
Physical and/or occupational therapy | * | * | * | 4 |
Primary care medical clinic (not FQHC or community clinic) | 13 | 19 | 16 | 13 |
Public health | * | 4 | 0 | 1 |
School | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Specialty (except psychiatric/substance abuse) hospital | * | 0 | * | 3 |
Specialty medical clinic | 6 | 9 | 5 | 0 |
Veterinary medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 369 | 235 | 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 “LTC – Other nursing/personal care facility” by data collection period:
- Fall 2021 – In-home caregiver suppot, area agency on aging, other personal care facility
- Spring 2021 – Hospice, retirement community/independent living facility
- Fall 2020 – Adult family home, CCRC
- Spring 2020 – Adult family home, hospice
- Fall 2019 – Adult family home, home care/private duty nursing
- Spring 2019 – Adult family home, dementia care, memory care
‡Facility types included in “Other” by data collection period:
- Fall 2021 – Adult day health, ACH, medical and diagnostic laboratory, permanent supportive housing, physical therapy, public health, rural health network, senior center
- Spring 2021 – Community health and OBOT clinic, EMS, physical and/or occupational therapy, specialty (except psychiatric/substance abuse) hospital
- Fall 2020 – Medical and diagnostic laboratory, physical therapy, prison health, social services, specialty (except psychiatric/substance abuse) hospital
- Spring 2020 – Hospital/clinical pharmacy, outpatient pediatric and adult therapies, physical therapy clinic
- Fall 2019 – EMS, clean & sober living homes, community based social services, medical/diagnostic laboratory, prison, specialty (except psychiatric/substance abuse) hospital
- Spring 2019 – Aging and disability resource center, higher education / research, correctional facility, fire department, transportation department, hospice
- Summer 2018 – Psychiatric/substance abuse hospital, advocacy, area agency on aging, senior services, community based long term services and supports
- Fall 2017 – Higher education/research, specialty (except psychiatric/substance abuse) hospital, public health, intermediate care facility, work release
- Spring 2017 – Psychiatric/substance abuse hospital, advocacy, dentist office/dental clinic
- Fall 2016 – Acute care hospital (more than 25 beds), higher education/research, medical/diagnostic laboratory, massage therapy, policy development, 2-1-1 information and referral
- Summer 2016 – Specialty (except psychiatric/substance abuse) hospital, intermediate care facility, health care education, physician’s billing office
¶Facility types included in “BH – Other out-of-facility behavioral health services” by data collection period:
- Fall 2021 – In-home BH services, multidisciplinary outreach mobile team, outpatient competency restoration
- Spring 2021 – Administrative support organization, behavioral day center, pediatric behavioral health clinic, SUD (non-residential)
- Fall 2020 – Mobile crisis outreach team, syringe services program, program for assertive community treatment, secure withdrawal management facility, substance use disorder clinic
§Facility types included in “BH – Other residential treatment facility” by data collection period:
- Fall 2021 – Residential behavioral health, SUD and psychiatric combined
- Spring 2021 – Psychiatric unit at a community hospital, short stay crisis respite center
- Fall 2020 – Residential behavioral health, mental and medical compromised program
- Spring 2020 – CRC/HOPE programs, Designated Crisis Responder (DCR) services, substance use disorder residential treatment facility