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Tucson Care Home Death: What the Meadows Catalina Indictment Means for Your Family You are reading this because someone you love is gone, and the news just told you it was not an accident. Seven employees of a Tucson assisted living facility have been indicted on felony charges after Arizona prosecutors determined that a vulnerable adult died from repeated falls and a failure to provide the care that resident was owed. One employee faces manslaughter. Six others face multiple counts of vulnerable adult abuse. The case is being prosecuted by the Arizona Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit as part of a coordinated enforcement action spanning five counties and 42 defendants statewide. If your loved one was that resident — or if you are watching this case unfold and recognizing the same pattern in a facility where your own family member lives — you need to understand three things right now. First, what happened was not a random tragedy; it was a pattern of neglect that the state’s top law enforcement office has independently determined rises to criminal conduct. Second, the criminal case and a civil wrongful death case serve different purposes: the criminal case punishes on behalf of the…