After CBS 6 broke the news that Virginia is overdue on nearly every single state hospital inspection, CBS 6 Investigative Reporter Melissa Hipolit has now learned the state may not have been doing these inspections at all.
The inspections are mandated under state law Virginia Code 32.1-126(B) and are supposed to happen every two years as a way for the state to ensure hospitals are protecting the health, safety and rights of patients.
But public records obtained from the Virginia Department of Health show those inspections haven’t happened in years, or perhaps not at all, at Richmond-area hospitals…