Let’s take a moment to pray, hope and wish on a star that whateva nursing home we land in, has Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez on its staff.

Why?

Grab your fleece blanket and a box of Kleenex because you are in for a heartwarming story.

Lord knows we need one.

In 2013, the Valley Springs Manor nursing home in California went bankrupt and shut down, leaving 16 residents behind to fend for themselves.

The cook–Maurice Rowland and janitor, Miguel Alvarez, were the only two workers that stayed behind to help with residents battling dementia, bedridden or in wheelchairs.

This is what they told NPR about their decision:

“There was about 16 residents left behind, and we had a conversation in the kitchen, ‘What are we going to do?’ ” Rowland says.

“If we left, they wouldn’t have nobody,” the 34-year-old Alvarez says.

So, they stayed at their jobs but their roles changed and hours.

“I would only go home for one hour, take a shower, get dressed, then be there for 24-hour days,” says Alvarez.

“I just couldn’t see myself going home — next thing you know, they’re in the kitchen trying to cook their own food and burn the place down,” Rowland says. “Even though they wasn’t our family, they were kind of like our family for this short period of time.”

Truly, because Alvarez and Rowland spent several days cooking, cleaning and giving residents medication without pay, help or guidance.

Thankfully they used their hearts and not their mind (shout out to SWV) to watch over these vulnerable seniors.

Because of these angels in disguise, the California legislation enacted the Residential Care for the Elderly Reform Act of 2014, requiring 24 hour care for residents needs and sufficient number of staff on site.

It’s good to know change came to such a horrible situation, now this legislation needs to be nationwide, amirite?