How to Boldly Advocate for your Loved One and Change Policy too!
When Mary Daniel, a Board-Certified Patient Advocate, took a job as a dishwasher to get to her husband Steve who was in a Memory Care Center during the COVID lockdown she had no idea how her life was about to change. Not only did she get back to her husband after 114 days apart she founded the Facebook group Caregivers for Compromise – because isolation kills too! who has been instrumental in obtaining Essential Caregiver legislation across the United States.
3 Session objectives:
- Learn how her background as a BCPA was a driving force for her advocacy work for her husband.
- Learn the strategies implemented by her Caregivers for Compromise groups nationwide which led to their success in getting visitation allowances during the COVID lockdown.
- Learn the strategies implemented which led to getting Essential Caregiver legislation introduced in Florida and other states so lockdowns in long-term care facilities never happens again.
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Mary Daniel, BCPA
Mary Daniel is a Board-Certified Patient Advocate and the founder/CEO of ClaimMedic and the Daniel Advocacy Group.
Mary’s husband, Steve was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2013 at the age of 59. He has been a resident at Rosecastle at Deerwood Memory Care Center in Jacksonville since July 2019. In July 2020, Mary gained national attention after taking a job as a dishwasher at Rosecastle so that she could spend time with Steve after being separated for 114 days during the lockdown due to COVID-19.
As a result, Mary founded the Facebook group Caregivers for Compromise – because isolation kills too! which has over 14,000 members and group pages in every state. Her grassroots effort got the attention of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who appointed Mary to the Florida Task Force on the Safe and Limited Re-Opening of Long-Term Care Facilities. The recommendations of the Task Force were accepted by the Governor on September 1, 2020 and Essential Caregivers were allowed back in facilities to see their loved ones.
She has continued advocating for long-term care residents by leading Caregivers for Compromise to promote H.R. 3733, the Essential Caregiver Act. She has also worked extensively with Rep. Jason Shoaf, Rep. Clay Yarborough and Gov. DeSantis’s office to get SB 988, the No Patient Left Alone bill, passed in the recent session of the Florida Legislature. Governor DeSantis signed the bill into law on April 6, 2022.