RICHMOND, Va. Governor Glenn Youngkin has announced a lineup of healthcare providers, industry professionals, state government leaders, legal experts, and consumer advocates who have now been tasked with coming up with solutions to make nursing homes better.

As part of Youngkin's recent executive order aimed at strengthening the oversight of facilities, the Nursing Home Oversight and Accountability Advisory Board has been established. It will make policy recommendations to the state health commissioner and governor centered around improving care.

As one member put it, the stakeholders will be "a part of what's now looking like a wake-up call" as the industry has come under scrutiny for what health officials have called declining quality of care and as the state health department has been

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