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The $20.5 Million Verdict in Petaluma: What Happened and What It Means for Your Family You are reading this because someone you love was hurt in a place that promised to keep them safe. Maybe your mother fell at a memory care facility in Petaluma and nobody called you for hours. Maybe your father’s care plan was supposed to include fall precautions and didn’t. Maybe you are sitting at a kitchen table in Sebastopol or Santa Rosa or Rohnert Park, staring at a death certificate that says one thing while you know the truth is something else entirely. We are writing this for you — the family that trusted a facility with a loved one’s last chapter and got back something far worse. In April 2024, a Sonoma County Superior Court jury returned a $20.5 million verdict against MuirWoods Memory Care in Petaluma and its corporate owner, MBK Senior Living, after finding them liable for negligence and elder neglect. The family of a woman named Theresa Donahue — a New Jersey native who moved to Sonoma County around 2015 and later struggled with dementia — had placed her at the facility in July 2020, trusting that trained professionals would protect…