Agency
Virginia Department of Health
 
Board
State Board of Health
 
Guidance Document Change: This guidance document summarizes how the State Health Commissioner (“The Commissioner”) of the Virginia Department of Health (VDH), through the Office of Licensure and Certification (OLC), may consider imposing administrative sanctions for nursing facilities under 12VAC5-371-90 and Va. Code §§ 32.1-27, 27.1, and 135. This guidance document does not create new requirements or mandatory enforcement levels. Decisions regarding sanctions will always be fact specific. This guidance document does not limit VDH's or the Commissioner’s authority to take any action authorized by law.
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8/27/26  10:05 am
Commenter: Anonymous

Understaffed
 

The obvious problems are low wages and very understaffed. The staff can barely do for one resident the correct way not alone 10. Then you have staff that needs to call in sick whether for themselves or their children. Certified Nursing Assistants do the most work in one day that any other employee does yet they are barely making it pay check to paycheck. Take out health insurance and utilities and there is nothing left to entertain children. Hire more staff and it’s plain as day the improvements that you’ll see as far as fewer sores,more time to assist someone who cannot eat by themselves. 

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