“Skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, (collectively known as long-term care facilities, LTCFs)- Data about infections in LTCFs are limited, but it has estimated 1 to 3 million serious infections occur every year in these facilities. Infections are a major cause for hospitalization (acute nursing) and death.
As many as 380,000 people die of the infections in LTCFs every year.”
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention