Daily Progress Op/Ed: Independent Living Facilities Need Oversight

 
Over-regulation is on lawmakers’ radar screens these days — but there’s also such a thing as under-regulation.

And Virginia under-regulates independent living facilities. In fact, it doesn’t regulate them at all.

A dangerous gap exists, and the distressing case of an Albemarle County woman who was forgotten in her room for four days demonstrates the need for action.
 
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