SAN LORENZO, CA – JUNE 28: Nancy Sanchez holds a picture of her as a child in 1985 with her father Jose Sanchez on Sunday, June 28, 2020, in San Lorenzo, Calif. Jose Sanchez joined a lawsuit against Parkview Healthcare Center, since shut down by owner Mariner Health has settled a lawsuit by local county prosecutors and the State of California alleging it neglected vulnerable patients’ medical care and hygiene needs and exposed them to physical and sexual assaults.
Mariner could not be reached for comment on the settlement. According to a press release from the office of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, the company neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing. In 2021, California’s Division of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse, and the district attorneys of Alameda, Marin, Santa Cruz, and Los Angeles countiesin California and the company’s corporate management. Mariner allegedly “understaffed facilities leading to resident harm,” and “unsafely discharged residents from the facilities,” Bonta’s office said of the lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court.