ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A coronavirus outbreak at a Central Florida nursing home has local and state experts keeping close watch.

A total of 66 residents at the Ocoee Health Center have the virus, and 22 have been hospitalized. Thirty staffers have also tested positive.

The first reported case came June 25.

Staff from the Agency for Health Care Administration were due to survey the facility Friday.

Orange County Health Department Director Dr. Raul Pino said the his department keeps a list of long-term care facilites that need special attention for one reason or another, and Ocoee Health Center is on that list.

The nursing home is isolating infected patients from other residents.

"The state Health Department will go and observe for 12 hour shifts their practices to try to identify if the outbreak was due to some lack of infection control practice," Pino said.

Pino added that the department will suggest that facilities with big outbreaks hire a staffing company to supplement nursing staff for those who are currently in quarantine.

In a statement to Spectrum News 13, facility administrators at Ocoee Health Care Center said they’re keeping infected residents away from other residents, undergoing deep-cleaning, and keeping families informed.  

But the son of one resident at the facility says staff only told him about one positive case a week ago, and he found out about the outbreak on a news report.

“I think the facility needs to be more transparent with their operations and more truthful with their communications with the families,” said John Ritchey.

Ritchey says his mother Judy is now in another assisted living facility.

The statement from Ocoee Health Care Center expressed sympathy for the loss some families experienced, but Orange County health officials have not yet confirmed any deaths at the facility, and state records as of Friday don’t show any COVID-19 deaths there.