BRIA of Belleville: Nurse Mocked Resident as Demon - IL
The nurse never went to check on the resident with breathing problems. A nursing assistant had to retrieve the oxygen equipment herself, take the resident's oxygen saturation reading, and then find a different nurse to help.
Federal inspectors documented the incident in a complaint investigation completed November 21, 2025. The resident at the center of it, identified in inspection records as R6, is a retired pastor. His stepdaughter told inspectors she had reviewed camera footage from his room and that a CNA had described what she saw directly: the nurse was calling her stepfather a demon, accusing him of beating women, and at one point pointing her finger like a gun and pretending to shoot him.
Two CNAs who were present confirmed the account independently.
The first, interviewed the morning of November 20, told inspectors she had both seen and heard the nurse talking inappropriately with R6. R6 had been seated near the nurses' station because he can become agitated, and the CNA said the nurse was deliberately provoking him for her own entertainment. "The nurse was irritating R6 on purpose for her own amusement and then laughing at him," she told inspectors. She said she couldn't recall the exact words but that the nurse said something about R6 not being a pastor because he had the devil, or a demon, inside him.
The second CNA put the duration of the incident at 15 to 30 minutes.
She told inspectors she heard the nurse tell R6 he was a woman beater. She heard the nurse tell him he was not a pastor but a demon. She watched as the nurse and R6 went back and forth in what she described as a finger-gun shootout, both of them pointing at each other. The nurse, she said, was laughing throughout. "If the nurse would have left R6 alone, he would have calmed down," she told inspectors, "but she kept messing with him."
It was during this same stretch of time that the CNA told the nurse another resident was having breathing problems.
The nurse did not go.
The CNA went and retrieved the oxygen equipment herself, checked the resident's oxygen saturation, and then located a different nurse to respond.
Inspectors classified the violation under F0744, which covers the care of residents with dementia or related conditions, at a level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, with few residents affected. The citation reflects what two CNAs described witnessing directly and what R6's stepdaughter reported after reviewing the room camera.
What the record shows is a nurse who had a resident positioned near the station because of his tendency toward agitation, and who then spent the better part of half an hour making it worse, on purpose, while laughing. A man who had spent his life as a pastor was told, repeatedly, that he was a demon. That he beat women. The nurse kept going. Another resident's oxygen levels were dropping somewhere on the unit, and the nurse stayed where she was.
The CNA who finally responded to the breathing resident was the same one who had already tried to redirect the nurse. She gave up trying and handled it herself.
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BRIA OF BELLEVILLE in BELLEVILLE, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on November 21, 2025.
The nurse never went to check on the resident with breathing problems.
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