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The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) and The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) are allocating lab resources to Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care facilities to support with and provide state funded COVID-19 screening tests through the Kansas COVID-19 Unified Testing Strategy effort announced by Governor Kelly. Through that effort, KDADS and KDHE have amassed several data points to build an initial view of the status of access to COVID-19 testing for staff across the 700+ KDADS licensed facilities.

Intent of the status report is to provide public awareness to such a critical public health issue, and to encourage facilities that need further assistance in accessing resources to regularly test their personnel (and as desired, their residents) to reach out to KDADS and KDHE for more information.

IMPORTANT SURVEY LINK FOR FACILITIES TO UPDATE STATUS:

Please provide your updates to testing status by completing this short seven-question survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KVZDVDS.

Testing Status Definitions:

Testing = Facilities that have access to resources to test staff for COVID-19, and are using a contracted lab to process their test results

Contracted with State Lab, Not Yet Testing = Facilities that have contracts with a state contracted lab for COVID-19 testing services, but have not yet begun to process test

Not Testing = Facilities for which data indicated they do not have access to resources to test staff for COVID-19, or are not currently using resources to test their staff

Unknown = Facilities where their testing status is currently unknown