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California Nursing Home Abuse: Sweetwater Care’s $15 Million Settlement and Your Family’s Separate Right to Sue You are reading this at 2 in the morning because you saw the headline — a California nursing home chain called Sweetwater Care agreed to pay $15 million — and your stomach dropped. Because the facility in that article is the one where your mother developed a bedsore that would not heal. Or where your father wandered outside and came back with blood on his head and nobody called you until hours later. Or where your grandmother’s fractured hip went untreated for days until someone finally picked up the phone. You saw $15 million and thought, for one moment, that the settlement meant your family would be taken care of. That is exactly what the facility is counting on you to think. It is not true. The $15 million settlement between the California Attorney General and Sweetwater Care addresses regulatory penalties and compliance obligations. It does not send a single dollar to the residents whose bodies were broken while the company extracted $31 million in profit. Your family’s right to compensation is entirely separate, entirely your own, and the clock on it is already…