You don't "send them around". You force the LTC facilities to cohort staff and patients. Covid floors/staff and non Covid floors/staff. Hackensack hospital had separate entrances for their Covid staff to keep them totally separate from the non covid staff. There are ways to do it.
I'm not sure how many deaths exactly because I can't find that number on the Florida Covid website, However, they have a 19 page report of numbers of deaths by LTC facility and 6.5 pages worth of facilities have deaths....12.5 pages don't have any deaths. Florida has way more LTC facilities than NJ does. Way more.
The state has 5653 deaths total..of all residents. NJ has 6877 deaths in LTC alone.
http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_archive/ltcf_deaths_latest.pdf
The Miami Herald put a story out about the LTC facilities. It seems that Florida is relaxing their rules on who can go into the facilities and this is causing an outbreak.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article244401817.html
While digging around for this info I found an AARP website that shows you how to look at the LTC rates of each state.
https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/health/info-2020/coronavirus-nursing-home-cases-deaths.html