Learn the signs, ask the questions and share what you know. Emily Adkins was my daughter. In October 2022, after she broke her ankle, a blood clot took her life. She was 23. For a long time afterward, my wife, Janet , and I kept asking how many other Florida families were living through this. No one could tell us, because Florida did not track blood clots.  That has changed. In 2025, the Legislature passed the Emily Adkins Family Protection Act without a single vote against it. The law requires hospitals with emergency rooms to assess patients for blood clot risk and train their staff. It requires nursing home aides to learn the warning signs and assisted living facilities to inform new residents. And it directed the state to measure the problem.