Virginia nursing homes are short-staffed. So are the agencies tasked with watching them.

When Susan Fanning broke her ankle, she could no longer use the bathroom on her own. At her Chesapeake nursing home, she recalled waiting more than three hours in a wet incontinence brief for someone to change it.

Other times, she said, medication she expected at 9 p.m. did not arrive until around midnight.

Fanning has lived at Chesapeake Health and Rehabilitation Center for about a year. She said the employees in her unit and the facility’s physical therapists are great. But her concern is whether enough people are available to provide care…

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