visitation

The bill marks a victory for family advocates who say separation during the pandemic took a harsh toll on their loved ones in hospitals and long-term care facilities.

For years, the parents of a slain Florida State University professor have been the faces of an effort to secure grandparent’s visitation rights under certain conditions. This year, a bill allowing for it is on its way to the governor after the Senate gave it unanimous approval Wednesday.

Lawmakers are considering proposals to provide families more access to their loved ones in hospitals and long-term care facilities. They want to address isolation patients endured as a result of visitation restrictions implemented to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Grandparents currently may be awarded visitation rights under very limited circumstances, such as when both parents are deceased.

We want to hear how pandemic visitation restrictions affected your family.

The guidelines will only make slight changes to Florida’s visitation procedures. Among them: the ability for residents to touch and hug their loved ones.

BayCare Health System's 15 Tampa Bay area hospitals will start allowing visitors Wednesday.

Top health care regulators in Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration on Friday discussed a limited reopening of nursing homes and other long-term care…

After nearly five months, families are demanding the state allow some form of in-person visitation in Florida nursing homes and assisted living…

Florida’s correctional facilities are no longer under lockdown and prisoner visitation has now been restored.