Nursing Assistant Suspended for Being Pantsless in a Resident's Room

The Washington State Department of Health has immediately suspended Douglas B. McGregor from practicing as a nursing assistant after he was charged with sexual misconduct involving a resident at the King County assisted living facility where he worked.

Charging documents state (found here) that McGregor was discovered pantsless in the room of a vulnerable female patient—a 70-year-old woman with late stage Alzheimer's. Her legs were in the air and her genitals were exposed.

According to the charging documents, he told a law enforcement officer that "his penis had slipped between Resident A's labia by accident."

McGregor also faces criminal charges.

The suspension means McGregor can't be employed as a nursing assistant in Washington pending the outcome of a hearing. He has twenty days to request such a hearing.