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Orinda Care Center COVID-19 Outbreak: What Families Need to Know About Their Rights Under California Elder Abuse Law The phone call comes at an hour no one wants to answer. Your mother — or your father, your aunt, the grandmother who taught you to bake bread — lived at Orinda Care Center. You placed her there because you believed trained professionals would care for her. You paid for that care every month. Then came the call: she has tested positive for COVID-19. Or worse — she is gone. You are not imagining what happened next. The records tell a story that predates the pandemic by years, a story of chronic understaffing, repeated state citations, a housekeeper with two prior sexual-abuse complaints who was allowed to prey on a resident with dementia, and an owner whose own nursing-home administrator license had been revoked for using fraudulent documents. The outbreak in April 2020 did not appear from nowhere. It was the predictable consequence of choices the facility had made over the course of years. This page is written for the person on the other end of that phone call. It explains what the law in California says you can do about it,…