In 2024, Delegates Bobby Orrock, Mark Sickles, Luke Torian, Terry Kilgore, and Senator George Barker had plenty of time to pass budgets, debate transportation rules, and create tax credits for ports and nuclear energy. But they never once moved to address Virginia’s nursing home crisis.

What they didn’t do? Support or even propose legislation to fix the dangerous understaffing in long-term care facilities—or stop the reckless practice of funneling medically complex residents into homes that are unprepared to care for them.

Meanwhile, they took tens of thousands of dollars from nursing home giants like Medical Facilities of America and American HealthCare LLC:
 • Orrock: $19,500
 • Sickles: $10,018
 • Torian: $27,500
 • Barker: $15,000
 • Kilgore: $12,500

These companies rake in profits while caregivers burn out, residents suffer, and taxpayers are left footing the bill for lawsuits, hospitalizations, and federal penalties.

Just last month, advocates submitted Dale’s Law—a two-part solution:
 1. Set minimum staffing standards in long-term care to ensure safe, quality care.
 2. Reform the admissions pipeline to prevent hospitals from offloading high-acuity patients into understaffed facilities that can’t safely care for them.

Now, these lawmakers have a choice:
Call a special session and pass emergency legislation to protect residents and workers—
Or keep serving their corporate donors at the expense of human lives.

If they won’t act, we will find representatives who will.