Long-Term Care Facility Utilization

All freestanding long-term care facilities (LTC) must submit an annual utilization report with the Office every February 15 for the prior calendar year’s data. Beginning in 2002, long term care facilities began submitting data to OSHPD through an online reporting system. Once a report is submitted and meets edit criteria, it immediately becomes available to the public. After all individual LTC reports are received and approved, OSHPD creates the LTC Annual Utilization Data Set from which the following of products are produced.

Available Data Products#

1. Complete Data Set
2. Pivot Profiles
3. Trend Reports

Important note about preliminary and final utilization data:#

Starting with the 2005 annual utilization data file, there will be two phases of data released. The preliminary data file released in the spring will contain data that has passed the prescribed set of fatal errors in the SIERA system and was therefore accepted into OSHPD. The second data file released in the fall will be the desk-audited data and is considered the final version of the annual utilization data file. Please note that this preliminary set of data will only be live and downloadable on the web page up and to the point that the final version is released and then the preliminary data file will be replaced by the final data file. The Pivot Profiles will be created in the fall for the desk audited data.