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…