Residents of Wyoming’s skilled nursing facilities continue to take the brunt of the COVID 19 impacts, according to information distributed by AARP Wyoming covering a four-week period ending Nov. 15.
Within the release the AARP COVID 19 Nursing Home Dashboard (and accompanying state-specific data) references Wyoming as having the third-highest ratio of COVID deaths per 100 nursing home residents in the nation.
Wyoming’s Nursing Home Resident Deaths per 100 residents ratio of 2.95 per 100 residents ranks the state third in the nation behind South Dakota (4.82), and Montana (3.12) for the four week period ending Nov. 15. Wyoming also ranks seventh in the nation in the number of nursing home resident cases per 100 residents at 12.4 per 100. South Dakota’s ratio of 22.1 leads the nation in that category.