Failure to Maintain Resident Dignity When Clothing Did Not Fit Properly
Penalty
Summary
The deficiency involves the facility’s failure to maintain resident dignity by allowing a male resident’s pants to repeatedly fall and expose his buttocks in common areas without effective intervention. On one observed occasion during meal service at 11:55 AM, the resident stood up from the dining table and, as he began to walk, his pants fell below his abdomen, exposing the top of his buttocks. The resident had to grab the waistband of his pants to hold them up, and another elderly female resident verbally remarked that she had seen his buttocks. On another observed occasion at 12:10 PM, the same resident was at the nurse’s station on the phone when his plaid pajama pants slipped below his abdomen, exposing approximately a quarter of his buttocks. As he walked to the dining room, he continued to pull up his pants in an attempt to keep them from falling. During an interview on 06/08/26 at 11:00 AM, a licensed nurse stated that the resident had not experienced weight loss and she did not know why his clothes were not fitting correctly. The facility’s policy on Respect and Dignity, Right to Personal Property, Including Searches and Illegal Substances, dated 06/25, states that residents have the right to be treated with respect and dignity and that staff shall provide person-centered care emphasizing residents’ comfort, independence, and personal needs and preferences, including accommodation of personal clothing unless it infringes on others’ rights or safety. The repeated exposure of the resident’s buttocks in public areas, observed by other residents, occurred despite this policy and constituted a failure to promote and protect the resident’s dignity.
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