My name is John McCormack. I’m a Gulf War veteran, a husband, and a father.

In 2000, my thirteen-month-old daughter, Taylor, died in the hospital because the hospital failed to keep my little girl safe. The Department of Public Health investigators stated that her death “should not have occurred.”

When I held Taylor in my arms and carried her to the hospital morgue, I promised her that I would devote my life to fighting for changes like Taylor’s Law, which was passed in 2004 and which makes health care providers more accountable.

Now, I’m fighting for another law that would make hospitals safer. The Nurses’ Bill would set safe limits on the number of patients assigned to a nurse at any one time. More than 100 of the Commonwealth’s leading health care and consumer organizations are also supporting this measure because we all know that when nurses are assigned fewer patients, we all get better care.

It’s common sense.

Please, call 617.722.2000 and ask your state legislator to vote for safe patient limits. Make safe staffing in hospitals a law.

I made a promise to Taylor that I’d make hospitals safer for all children. Please help me keep that promise.