VALLEJO – A Solano County jury awarded over $15 million on Tuesday to the family of a 96-year-old woman who died after staying at the Windsor Vallejo Care Center on Tuolumne Street for a week in 2019.
Ruby Evans was a patient at the care center from Aug. 3 to Aug. 10, 2019. According to a lawsuit filed by Evans’ family, the facility’s severe neglect resulted in her developing a painful pressure ulcer — also known as a bedsore — on her lower back and buttocks, which she endured until her death on Oct. 2, 2019, at her home.
The family’s attorneys from Dudensing Law and Buckley Law, led by lead counsel Matt Chisholm, argued that the care facility falsified records about Evans’ skin condition and concealed the severity of her wound from her family during her time at the facility…