RICHMOND, Va. -- More than half of Virginia's COVID-19 deaths are linked to long-term care facilities.
Among the state's 287 nursing homes, only 43 of them, or 15 percent, completed the federally required infection-control surveys.
Nationwide, 54 percent of all nursing homes have complied.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says it will reduce funds to states that don't get the surveys done by July 31 and increase penalties to nursing homes that don't practice longstanding infection-control procedures.