Nurse charged with homicide, worked at multiple Butler County facilities
A former registered nurse, who has worked at three Butler County care facilities, has been charged with causing the death of two patients and the hospitalization of a third by insulin injections at a Donegal Township nursing home, according to charges filed Wednesday, May 24.
The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General charged Heather I. Pressdee, 40, of Natrona Heights, with two counts of criminal homicide, one count of criminal attempted homicide, three felony counts of neglect of a care dependent person and one count of aggravated assault and three misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment.
Court documents show that Pressdee is charged with injecting three patients with insulin, which caused the death of two people and the hospitalization of one other at Quality Life Services outside Chicora.
Pressdee is charged with homicide regarding the death of a 55-year-old man and an 83-year-old man. The third victim, a 73-year-old man, survived after emergency hospitalization.
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