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A Pennsylvania nurse is accused of killing two of her sufferers and injuring one other, in accordance with Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry.
Heather Pressdee, 40, of Natrona Heights, is dealing with prices of murder, tried homicide, aggravated assault, neglect of a care-dependent individual and reckless endangerment in reference to the deaths of a 55-year-old man and an 83-year-old man, in addition to the harm of a 73-year-old man.
“The allegations on this case define the callous abuse of extremely susceptible sufferers by an expert nurse,” Henry mentioned in a Thursday assertion.
“As the fees point out, these had been deliberate and intentional acts perpetrated by a care-giver who was trusted to look after these victims.”
Pressdee was a registered nurse working at Quality Life Services (QLS), a retirement nursing facility, in Chicora.
“As a household owned group that prides itself on offering secure and compassionate care, Quality Life Services is shocked and devastated to be taught that the fees introduced towards Ms. Pressdee by the Attorney General’s Office embrace alleged criminality that occurred at our QLS – Chicora facility,” QLS mentioned in a Thursday assertion posted to Facebook.
On Nov. 19, 2022, the 55-year-old sufferer and 83-year-old sufferer grew to become sick whereas in Pressdee’s care.
The two victims lived in rooms related by a Jack-and-Jill-style rest room, in accordance with an affidavit.
Both victims had been transported to the hospital the next day after they grew to become hypoglycemic.
The 83-year-old sufferer had been transported to the hospital as soon as earlier than in October 2022 for hypoglycemia.
The affidavit alleges that Pressdee gave lethal doses of insulin, a hormone used to scale back blood-sugar ranges sometimes given to sufferers with diabetes, to the victims.
Two of the three victims didn’t have diabetes.
One witness, a nurse practitioner who recalled a dialog with Pressdee, informed authorities the nurse mentioned the 83-year-old sufferer could be “higher off dead.”
The nurse practitioner informed authorities that every one medical personnel take an oath to “do no hurt” to sufferers.
The third sufferer was in Pressdee’s care on Aug. 31, 2022, when he was transported to the hospital with low blood-sugar ranges.
He was handled and survived, in accordance with the affidavit.
When police arrived at Pressdee’s residence on Wednesday and interviewed the suspect, she apparently admitted to injecting two of the victims with insulin.
“She acknowledged that she felt dangerous for his or her high quality of life and she or he had hoped that they’d simply slip right into a coma and move away,” investigators wrote within the affidavit.
For the surviving sufferer, Pressdee mentioned “he was in COVID isolation and that he was having a really troublesome time.”
She informed investigators the night of Aug. 31, 2022, “was a really busy night time and that he requested her to ‘kill him.’”
Pressdee additionally apparently spoke along with her mom over the cellphone with authorities current and “knowledgeable her that she gave sufferers insulin that didn’t want it.”
QLS mentioned it can proceed to “totally cooperate with the Attorney General’s Office as wanted within the investigation and prosecution of this matter” and guaranteed its sufferers and their households that “all residents of Quality Life Services – Chicora are secure and are receiving acceptable care and repair.”
