New York State data on hospital staff COVID-19 vaccination and furlough status, collected weekly from individual facilities. The dataset includes counts for total, partially, and fully vaccinated staff, as well as furloughed employees, and was last updated on July 28, 2023. It was published by health.data.ny.gov and was initially titled the Hospital Electronic Response Data System (HERDS) Hospital Survey.
Use Cases
- Analyze vaccination rates over time using Report Date, Fully Vaccinated, and Partially Vaccinated columns.
- Compare staffing and furlough levels across regions using Hospital County, NY Forward Region, Total Employees, and Total Staff Furloughed columns.
- Model the relationship between hospital network affiliation and booster uptake using Hospital Network and Staff Booster columns.
- Assess direct care workforce impact by analyzing Direct Care Employees and Direct Care Staff Furloughed columns.
Strengths
- Data is reported at the facility level, allowing for granular analysis of over 14 distinct variables.
- Includes a time-series component with a Report Date column for tracking weekly changes.
- Provides geographic context through Hospital County, Hospital Region, and NY Forward Region columns.
Limitations
- Last updated 2023-07-28 16:46:58; freshness should be verified.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- health.data.ny.gov
- Collection Method
- Collected weekly from hospitals via the Hospital Electronic Response Data System (HERDS) survey.
- Freshness
- Dataset is no longer updated as of 7/28/2023.
- Geography
- New York State, United States