. >> reporter: cohen's 98-year-old grandfather lives at the tamarac rehabilitation and health centercounty, that's in southern florida. it is one of 23 covid isolation centers that have entered an arrangement with the state to house and treat patients. four of those facilities are dedicated to only covid patients, while in the other 19, patients are supposed to be secluded from current residents. >> i certainly understand the concern that any family member would have, but i am equally committed to ensuring the safety of our residents in these facilities. >> reporter: mary mayhew leads the agency for health care administration. they oversee all of the isolation centers in the state. how much do these facilities receive money-wise from the state to take in these patients? >> we are paying a rate for their vacant beds to make sure that those beds are available. and then we are paying them for anyone who is on medicaid, we are paying them a higher medicaid reimbursement rate. otherwise, most of these individuals are medicare. >> reporter: according to state data, the isolation centers re