The state’s nursing board is investigating a Pennsylvania nurse at the center of a whistleblower lawsuit claiming his alcohol and drug use led to two patients dying and that the hospital covered up his actions.
In a Sept. 2 court filing for the case they originally filed in April 2025, two nurses, Jennifer Duckett and Samantha Gallo, said the board contacted Gallo after the federal lawsuit was unsealed in June and became public.
Duckett and Gallo’s lawsuit alleges that Heritage Valley Health System executives, physicians and nurse managers knew about emergency room nurse Nolan Chismire stealing and using drugs at work for years but ignored complaints while allowing him to remain at Sewickley Hospital in Allegheny County…