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Health Access for Independent Living (HAIL) Fact Sheet: Working with Your Healthcare Provider
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Access To Medical Care For Individuals With Mobility Disabilities
Americans with Disabilities Act Access To Medical Care For Individuals With Mobility Disabilities U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Disability Rights...
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Accessible Health Care Briefs: HEALTH CARE (Clinic/Outpatient) FACILITIES ACCESS
HEALTH CARE (Clinic/Outpatient) FACILITIES ACCESS June Isaacson Kailes MSW, Associate Director Christie Mac Donald MPP, Senior Policy Analyst Center for Disabilities Issues...
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PART 1: OVERVIEW AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Accessibility of doctors’ offices, clinics, and other health care providers is essential in providing medical care to people with disabilities. Due to barriers, individuals with...
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Services and Facilities
Services and Facilities Both Title II and Title III of the ADA and Section 504 require that medical care providers provide individuals with disabilities: · full and equal...
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Physical Barriers
People with disabilities may find it difficult to access their health care provider because of the physical space or architecture of the medical office. This very common barrier...
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Is it OK to examine a patient who uses a wheelchair in the wheelchair, because the patient cannot get onto the exam table independently?
Examining a patient in their wheelchair usually is less thorough than on the exam table, and does not provide the patient equal medical services....
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Can I tell a patient that I cannot treat her because I don’t have accessible medical equipment?
In order to do so, you may need to provide an accessible exam table, an accessible stretcher or gurney, or a patient lift, or have enough trained staff available who can assist the patient...
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2.4 Patient Areas
Is there space in the waiting room for wheelchair users to sit?...
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I have an accessible exam table, but if it is in use when a patient with a disability comes in for an appointment, is it OK to make the patient wait for the room to open up, or else use an exam table that is not accessible?
Q I have an accessible exam table, but if it is in use when a patient with a disability comes in for an appointment, is it OK to make the patient wait for the room to open up, or else use...
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In a doctor’s office or clinic with multiple exam rooms, must every examination room have an accessible exam table and sufficient clear floor space next to the exam table?
Q In a doctor’s office or clinic with multiple exam rooms, must every examination room have an accessible exam table and sufficient clear floor space next to the exam table?...
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I don’t want to discriminate against patients with disabilities, but I don’t want my staff to injure their backs by lifting people who use wheelchairs onto exam tables. If my nurse has a bad back, then she doesn’t have to help lift a patient, does she?
Q I don’t want to discriminate against patients with disabilities, but I don’t want my staff to injure their backs by lifting people who use wheelchairs onto exam tables....
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If I lease my medical office space, am I responsible for making sure the examination room, waiting room, and toilet rooms are accessible?
Q If I lease my medical office space, am I responsible for making sure the examination room, waiting room, and toilet rooms are accessible? Yes....
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Attachment H: Modifications to Altered Facilities
Attachment H: Modifications to Altered Facilities
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PART 3: ACCESSIBLE EXAMINATION ROOMS
These features allow the patient to enter the examination room, move around in the room, and utilize the accessible equipment provided....
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3. Getting Access to Medical Equipment
In a national survey of people with disabilities or activity limitations, wheelchair users reported the following: 69% had difficulty using exam tables; 60% had difficulty...
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Entry Doors
Entry Doors Under the ADA Standards for Accessible Design, an accessible doorway must have a minimum clear opening width of 32 inches when the door is opened to 90...
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Example: Clinical Suite
This facility includes public and common use areas and employee work areas.
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Clear Floor and Turning Space Inside Examination Rooms
must be able to approach the exam table and any other elements of the room to which patients have access....
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3.2 Getting on the Table
The height of exam tables was the most commonly reported complaint.4 A survey of approximately 400 Californians with disabilities found exam tables were inaccessible to 69% of wheelchair...
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Features of an Accessible Examination Room
Features of an Accessible Examination Room 1....
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PART 4: ACCESSIBLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
an accessible height exam table with adjustable, padded leg supports, instead of typical stirrups....
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Exam Tables and Chairs
Exam Tables and Chairs Traditional fixed-height exam tables and chairs (also called treatment tables or procedure tables) are too high for many people with a mobility disability to use...
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Features of Accessible Exam Tables
Features of Accessible Exam Tables 1....