Following the announcement that Good Samaritan Society is selling off the Kissimmee Village community, News 6 spoke with residents who currently live there.

On Thursday, The Good Samaritan Society released a statement through CEO Nate Schema announcing their Osceola County facility is being sold off from the company following damage from Hurricane Ian.

In the first full day since Osceola County leaders lifted evacuation orders for Good Samaritan Society Kissimmee Village, residents from the senior living community finally returned to their homes.

Osceola County on Monday lifted the evacuation order for a Kissimmee retirement community that has been flooded since Hurricane Ian.

Pastor Rich Reiter of Good Samaritan church shared with News 6 the email the Good Samaritan Society management team sent out to its residen

Some residents in Good Samaritan Society in Kissimmee Village are being asked to find other housing arrangements indefinitely.

Staff have had to reallocate tests across their facilities in the U.S. and bring them to Central Florida.

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – The federal rollout to get vaccines into long-term care facilities has made its way in Central Florida. News 6 was at the Good Samaritan Society skilled nursing home in Daytona Beach Thursday as a Central Florida pharmacist vaccinated nearly 100 residents and staff just before the new year. This round of vaccines from Walgreens was Pfizer and they plan to be back next month to administer second doses. “We are family, so when you lose a family member it is hard on us,” she said. “It’s been really challenging because you fear for the residents more than yourself,” Williams said.

OSECOLA COUNTY, Fla. – For the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the Heritage Creekside assisted living facility within the Good Samaritan Society in Osceola County began allowing visitors into the long-term care facility this week. Ron DeSantis shut down long-term care facilities in an emergency order back in March. The Governor released some of the restrictions of that emergency order, allowing long-term care facilities to begin allowing visitors. Once they got all the staffing, scheduling, and personal protection equipment in place, the Good Samaritan Society felt comfortable to open its doors. “So she did light up when she saw me and we had a good time joking and laughing.”Though the Governor has allowed for the limited reopening of long-term care facilities to allow for touching, only by the essential caregivers, the Good Samaritan Society is keeping cautious and keeping families socially distant for now.