Texas: Patient Advocates Say Some Care Facilities Won’t Comply With Newly Passed Visitation Requirements – IOTW Report

Texas: Patient Advocates Say Some Care Facilities Won’t Comply With Newly Passed Visitation Requirements

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Texas Caregivers for Compromise is an organization that arose during the 2020 COVID-19 shutdowns when families were denied access to their relatives in care facilities, such as nursing homes and state-supported living centers.

In an attempt to bring awareness to the detrimental effects of keeping families apart—especially when the individual in care is already vulnerable due to illness, disease, or age—Texas Caregivers for Compromise has been a powerful force in the Texas Legislature this year, advocating for a codified right for a person in a care facility to have an essential caregiver who cannot be turned away. 

Senate Bill 25 and a Texas constitutional amendment, Proposition 6, were both passed this year to allow families to visit and advocate for their relatives in care facilities. 

The founder of the Texas Caregivers for Compromise, Mary Nichols, created the organization after being denied access to her mother during the shutdowns.   more here

6 Comments on Texas: Patient Advocates Say Some Care Facilities Won’t Comply With Newly Passed Visitation Requirements

  1. I’m in a nursing facility in Texas right now as I am the owner of a private duty homecare agency. Private duty homecare is considered by our glorious and benevolent overlords (PBUT) to be “essential workers.” Of course, you have to pay me to put in place an advocate for your mom and dad. But let’s be honest, if people just took their parents home and cared for them themselves this wouldn’t be an issue. Just saying.

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  2. People that play jailer with other people’s family members – do they live on site, or do they need to leave the facility at some point?
    I believe Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn advice might apply here.
    Gonna wait until you got nothing left to lose?

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  3. Mohammed’s pink swastika

    You said just take them home, that is not always an option. In my case whether my mother signed it not knowing what she was signing or my sister forged it, she had power of attorney over her medical. I had no say about her being put in a nursing home, although I fought it, I could not bring her home, I couldn’t even have a say on whether she took a death jab that killed her.
    For a year my mother was locked in a home, I gladly would have taken her out if I could have. By the time I was allowed to see her, she was bedridden due to the death jab and died shortly after.

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  4. ORWW, if you are not the medical power of attorney for your mom tans had no say in spent the lockdown, then obviously I’m not talking to you. I’m just saying you in general terms, that if people just took care of their families at home like we used to do wouldn’t even be an issue. But we as a society have decided that we don’t want to see the very natural effects of aging and death. Something that we all must do at some point ourselves.

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