A blog post from Partha Bhattacharyya, Program Director, and Ama Donkor, Health Specialist, both of the Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging, describes the newest resource available from the IMPACT Collaboratory, the Long-Term Care (LTC) Data Cooperative.

The LTC Data Cooperative is the largest integrated database of detailed, normalized, electronic health record data from nursing homes in the United States. The LTC Data Cooperative is a collaboration with the American Health Care Association and funded by a supplemental grant to the IMPACT Collaboratory.

The mission of the LTC Data Cooperative is to improve the quality of care within skilled nursing facilities by compiling the most comprehensive data on nursing home residents nationwide – and to translate these data into information that is accessible and actionable. The LTC Data Cooperative was created as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to create way for researchers to share data and track the effects of COVID-19 vaccines administered to frail older adults, including those living with dementia.

Read the full blog post at this link, and learn more about the LTC Data Cooperative at this page.