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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Graig Graziosi

Drug-addicted nurse may have caused the death of two patients and staff did nothing, whistleblowers claim

A pair of nurses at a Pennsylvania hospital are blowing the whistle on the facility, claiming it ignored substance abuse problems in one of its other nurses and that his negligence may have contributed to two patients' deaths.

Jennifer Duckett and Samantha Gallo — the former nurses — sued Heritage Valley Sewickley Hospital in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, in April 2025, but the filing was sealed until earlier this month, according to PennLive. The lawsuit names Heritage Valley Health System, its executives, doctors and nurse managers as defendants.

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