TALLAHASSEE – As the number of residents in long-term care facilities with COVID-19 continues to increase, AARP’s Florida director has asked state officials to explain why they are keeping the names of the facilities from the public.
AARP Director Jeff Johnson sent a letter to Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Mary Mayhew on Monday asking the state to provide any federal guidance it is relying on to withhold the names of the facilities that housed 66 long-term care residents who have tested positive for the highly contagious and deadly respiratory disease. “What we do not know, and what Floridians with family members in long-term care facilities or who have interplay with those facilities are desperate to know, is which