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AARP Florida is pressing members of the Legislature to oppose two bills that would grant health care providers some immunity from COVID-19-related lawsuits.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced he will lift the state’s ban on visiting nursing homes.

Assisted living-type facilities often are subject to less scrutiny than nursing homes. Investigations in Vermont and elsewhere have revealed patterns of poor care and deaths.

Nearly thirty companies will be competing to build new nursing homes in Florida, and with 1,700 applications for only about 500 new beds, competition will be fierce.

More than two dozen nursing home companies are suing the state for being passed up on building new homes in Florida.

There’s a shortage of nursing home beds in Florida, and companies are flooding the state with applications to build. With hundreds of millions of dollars…