Florida care-facility access legislation: Mary Daniel’s story

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0:01 a jacksonville wife is celebrating a win but with some mixed emotions tonight it's a feeling a lot of families share today florida governor ron desantis signed into law the no patient left alone act that means starting july 1st caregivers must be allowed in to see their loved ones even in a pandemic if they follow the same rules as staff you remember mary daniel took a job as a

0:22 dishwasher just to see her husband steve he has alzheimer's and married during the pandemic was denied visitation so she would put her hand up on a window on the outside and steve on the inside would just cry it was so hard to see those pictures i'm sure you remember mixed emotions for you today april 6 i would imagine it is today is our 26th wedding anniversary and he doesn't know it

0:49 and he doesn't know that we got a bill today either and tonight on their anniversary even though he can't understand it she told steve hey we did it you've always said isolation kills how many families now know that all too well tens of thousands literally tens of thousands in in this state alone now mary says the new law is better than any other bill passed so far in other

1:18 states because she says in florida it applies not just to nursing homes but to hospitals and hospice facilities and centers for the developmentally disabled