Patent ID: 8069497

Claim:
A multi-purpose hospital gown comprising: a pair of substantially identical sleeve assemblies with front and rear segments, sleeve tops, and separable top seams, separable edges, and closure means; a body assembly, including a neck front, arm pits, a right top, a left top, a frontal area, a lower right side of said frontal area, a right side, a left side, a bottom edge; each of said sleeve assemblies being joined to said body assembly at seams that begin at said neck front for said front segments and to said left and right tops for said rear segments and curve to the bottom of said arm pit; two vertical slits located one above the other on said lower right side of said frontal area wherein a hook from a catheter bag may be hung at two different heights above said bottom edge; said gown is worn by placing said right side in alignment with the center of patient's back, wrapping around patient again to the center of patient's back where a closure means connects said right top to said left top behind the patient's neck, continuing on overlapping to patient's left side, dropping to waist level where closure means connects said left side to connector on the left side of said frontal area at waist level height and connecting said separable top seams of said sleeve assemblies.