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Woman falls off cliff in Fairfax Co.

WASHINGTON — A woman was hospitalized after falling 40 feet off a cliff Sunday at Scott’s Run Nature Preserve in McLean, Virginia.

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue officials said the incident happened at around 1:20 p.m. The woman fell in a remote section of the park and had to be airlifted to the hospital.

During the rescue, fire officials said the woman’s injuries were life-threatening, but her condition was unclear at the time this article was updated Sunday afternoon.

Another person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

Va. health dept. improves nursing home inspection backlog, reforms sanction criteria for facilities

Stories of neglect in care or unsanitary living situations have plagued several of Virginia’s nursing home facilities in recent years and data backs up a lapse in oversight by state agencies.  With reform efforts underway, the Virginia Department of Health officials said they aim to adopt sanction criteria by the end of the year to rein in bad actors and get troubled facilities back on track.  As of July, 58% of Virginia’s nursing homes were overdue for inspections and 68 of Virginia’s 289 nursing homes were found to have serious deficiencies, according to ProPublica. Several of the state’s flagged facilities with numerous deficiencies also had high staffing turnover rates.  The issue has been salient among various healthcare spaces, including VDH. 
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