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A Pennsylvania woman charged with the mistreatment of 22 elderly nursing home residents allegedly sent flowers and a card to the family of a victim who was given a fatal dose of insulin.
Heather Pressdee, 41, is facing two counts of first-degree murder, 17 counts of attempted murder, and 19 counts of neglect relating to incidents across five care facilities between 2020 and 2023.
She was charged with the murders of Irene Simons, 78, and Sandra Lincoln, 82, who died following unnecessary doses of insulin last year.
Their families filed separate wrongful death lawsuits against Sunnyview Operating LLC and Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center last week.
They claim the companies were negligent, careless or reckless as they hired Pressdee 'despite her alarming history of resident abuse at ten prior facilities including causing injuries and/or deaths of at least sixteen residents at the other facilities.'
Heather Pressdee, 41, charged with the mistreatment of 22 elderly nursing home residents, allegedly sent flowers and a card to the family of a victim who was given a fatal dose of insulin
She was charged with the murders of Irene Simons, 78, (pictured) and Sandra Lincoln, 82, who died following unnecessarily doses of insulin last year
Their families filed separate wrongful death lawsuits against Sunnyview Operating LLC and Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (pictured) last week
The lawsuit filed by the family of Simons alleges that Pressdee injected the elderly victim with 60 doses of insulin before administering another 60 when she did not immediately die in March 2023.
Her daughter Elizabeth Ozella, the plaintiff in the lawsuit, was visiting her on the day of the incident before she left the room for around 30 minutes and Simons was doing well and speaking with family.
But once she returned she noticed her mother's breathing became irregular and labored.
She asked Pressdee to check on Simons while she went to the bathroom. When Ozella returned, she allegedly saw the nurse with a medication cart and was told her mother was dead.
'Elizabeth broke down into tears and began to cry uncontrollably and lay in bed with her deceased mother,' the lawsuit alleged.
'Heather Pressdee did not then leave the room but rather stayed in the room/doorway and lingered watching Plaintiff grieve and lay in bed with her mother as she perceived the sudden and unexpected death of her mother, whose condition she was cruelly forced to watch deteriorate in real time.
'At the hands of whom she entrusted her mother's care, Heather Pressdee in her employment for Defendant Sunnyview.'
The lawsuit claims Pressdee also sent flowers, a handwritten note to the funeral home and a sympathy card to Simons' family following her death.
'Heather Pressdee sent flowers to the funeral home for Irene Simons with a handwritten note that stated "In loving memory of Irene Elizabeth Simons. She will be missed. Sorry for your loss. Love Heather (Sunnyview)"
'Pressdee sent the family of Irene Simons an additional handwritten sympathy card which stated "words can't say how sorry I am for the loss of Irene. She was one of a kind.
