While residents at Harrisonburg Health & Rehabilitation Center and other nursing homes across Virginia suffer from neglect, understaffing, and abuse, some of our state’s most powerful lawmakers are accepting thousands of dollars from the very corporations responsible—Medical Facilities of America (MFA) and American Healthcare.
These companies don’t donate out of kindness.
They donate to influence policy, block accountability, and maintain the status quo.
Here are the legislators who have taken significant contributions from the nursing home industry—while refusing to pass safe staffing standards and reform admissions policies that would protect our most vulnerable residents:
• Delegate Luke Torian – $27,500
Chair of House Appropriations. Controls what gets funded and what gets ignored.
• Senator George Barker – $15,000
Former Chair of Senate Education & Health. Oversaw the system and let it fail.
• Senator Orrock – $19,500
Powerful committee member with the ability to move or block key reforms.
• Delegate Mark Sickles – $10,018
Vice Chair of Appropriations, member of Health, Welfare and Institutions—direct oversight of nursing homes.
• Delegate Terry Kilgore – $12,500
House Majority Leader. Controls the agenda. Accepts industry cash while residents suffer.
These lawmakers have the power to act—and they’ve chosen to protect profits instead.
We’re calling on Virginia’s elected officials to:
• Pass safe staffing standards for long-term care facilities
• Reform the admissions pipeline to prevent inappropriate placements
• Revoke the license of Harrisonburg Health & Rehabilitation Center
Keep the pressure on. Share the petition, tag your legislators, and demand real change:
Thank you for continuing to fight for Virginia’s elders. We will not be silenced.
People over profits. Always.
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