Sex Offenders Banned From Florida Hospital
Daytona Beach registrants should be up in arms over this one!
A local hospital, Halifax Health, has set up a new system to scan IDs for Sex Offenders. According to this article, “The process will take less than a minute and the system will screen visitors to see if they are on the sexual offender list…Sex offenders will be denied access. Sex offenders and those without a photo ID could be granted an exception to visit dying relatives”
Dying relatives? So your relative has to be dying in order for you to visit someone in the hospital? What if they are your friend? What if they are not dying but really, really, sick?
What’s next?
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Florida is not only sipping the ‘coolade of sex offender myth’, they are gulping it. I have not yet been denied entrance to a hospital…and I can understand that must be frustrating…but should they ever deny me entry to visit a family member or friend they had best stand by for a ‘stink’ like they have never seen in the lobby. I did not spend 29 years of honorable military service to my country and time restoring my family to put up with this bureaucratic ‘crap’. I’d be glad to show them up for the cowards that they are. Evil prevails when good men do nothing.
My brother had a stroke and was to be transferred to a nursing home in florida. They called and said he would not be able to transfer to any nursing home in florida because he was a sex offender. He can’t even walk so what is he to do? I need help!
Scott – call our membership hotline.
This is a hospital that needs to be sued to the point of being put out of business.
My ex husband was having surgery, and my son who is on the list was told if he was in the hospital he would have to have an armed security guard with him at all times. As he had been released from prison after 4 years couldn’t take the trauma that it would cause.
I ended up canceling a job interview in order for somebody to be there. The job would have made a huge difference, I ended up sending my youngest daughter north today to live with family so she would have enough food to eat. Thank you Florida, I nor my daughter have broken any laws, but we still pay.
Which hospital was this?
Well, I was just DENIED entry to go be with my DAUGHTER while she was DELIVERING MY GRANDSON !!¡!!!. I want to sue this Hospital, So if anyone knows a Lawyer that will work with me on this case ????. Halifax Hospital in Daytona Beach FL. !!!! Denied me entry and the Security Guy as well as the Intake Clerk both stood their ground when I threatened to Sue them !!!. I was told they “Run A BACKGROUND Check on every visitor that comes, And they are PROTECTING the little kids in the Building !!. This is absolutely INSANE !!!. I missed my FIRST grandchild’s birth !!!!!. This CAN’T BE LEGAL !!!!???????. A EX Offender is OK to roam the Streets, Visit any other place they choose, But are “To Dangerous” to visit this Hospital without a chance of them harming a child ?????. I want to sue them with every drop of blood in me, So someone please help me find a Lawyer that will work with me !!!. This has got to stop !!!! The “Registery” IS PUNISHMENT !!!!!. And it’s time to stop it !!!!!!!.
Absolutely disgusting and inhumane….
Just as an FYI, my roommate just returned from taking a friend to surgery at a hospital in Orange County and was denied admittance as they were checking in and asked to leave the building. They did allow him to wait in his car in the parking garage while she was being operated on.
It’s not an isolated policy, apparently.
Just as a follow-up, I got curious and called the hospital to get clarification on their policy. Spoke with the security manager and she informed me that if someone is on the registry they will be denied visitor access and asked to leave the property unless they are the parent of the patient, in which case they will be allowed to visit with a security escort. No other blood relatives (or other folks for that matter) may visit.
Can you tell us which hospital it was and what the basis for denial was?
Nemours, and I assume the basis for denial is that he is on the registry and not the parent of the patient, just as their policy states.
can you share the policy with me? If we’re going to do something about this, we need the facts.
Well, I only have the info that the security manager told me, which was that their visitor policy for registrants was simple: They are not allowed in unless they are the parent of the patient. She then expounded a bit to let me know that uncles, grandfathers, etc. would be denied access because they were not the parents. That’s the policy.
I don’t have a written policy, just the info i got from the phone call. I get the feeling that they may or may not have it written down, since my inquiry had them transfer my call 4 times before I got someone who was willing to give me an answer.
Unfortunately, we’ll need it in writing.
Forgot:
If a registrant is allowed in, they will be accompanied by an escort at all times.
Feel free to email me if you have further questions, but that’s really the extent of the info I have atm.