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- HEALTHCARE STORIES - DENISE SHERER JACOBSON Part 1 of 4
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) motor vehicle safety regulations require that a wheelchair lift be tested to withstand a 600-pound load. If the manufacturer states that the design load is 800 pounds, can the transportation operator limit actual use to 600 pounds for safety reasons?
No. The NHTSA safety standards and the DOT ADA regulations were designed to complement each other. The manufacturer’s design load represents the amount of weight that the lift is...
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11B-206.2.4 Spaces and elements
In assembly areas with fixed seating required to comply with Section 11B-221, an accessible route shall not be required to serve fixed seating where wheelchair spaces required to be on an...
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2.2 Evidence of Physical Accessibility Barriers
For example, in the breast cancer study, physicians often examined women who remained seated in their wheelchairs.11 This represents poor quality care, F as a woman disabled by polio who...
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II. Recommendations of Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Manufacturers on Transfer Surface Low Height
This study showed that adding a grab bar for patient support helped some wheelchair users to transfer at a height at which they could not transfer previously....
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II. Rulemaking History
These accessibility requirements relate to, among other things, ramps and lifts, onboard circulation, wheelchair spaces and securement devices, priority seats, stop request systems, and...
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EXHIBIT F ADA Maintenance Checklist
There must be sufficient clear floor space for approach and maneuvering room by a wheelchair. a....
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Boston Center for Independent Living, Inc.
The consequence of examinations in wheelchairs was often second-rate care, undoubtedly resulting in poorer health outcomes in certain instances....
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General Exceptions in FSTAG
Although accessible design is based on wheelchair dimensions, clear space, maneuvering room, and reach ranges, only 4 percent of people with disabilities use wheelchairs....
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III. PROTECTING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE ADA
One plaintiff, a wheelchair user who was charged with two misdemeanor offenses, alleged that he had to crawl up two flights of stairs to make a required court appearance....
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Check-Out Aisles and Sales and Service Counters
Commenters recommended that the Department consider a regulatory alternative exempting small retailers from the new knee and toe clearance requirement and retaining existing wheelchair accessibility...
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1. Public Right-of-Way
Kirola claims that the bumps on the east side of Fulton caused her wheelchair to "hesitate," and that she "got to spend extra time deciding where [she is] going to go." RT 1382:8-18....
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Accessible Cells in Detention and Correctional Facilities (Section-by-Section Analysis)
For example, at one facility with a population of almost 300 inmates, ten percent (10%) of the inmates use wheelchairs. ...
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What Terminology Should Be Used?
Examples include: A person who is blind—not "a blind person" A person who uses a wheelchair—not "a wheelchairbound person" or "a wheelchair person" A handicap is...
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3.1 Getting Weighed
An accessible scale allows a wheelchair user to roll onto the platform of the scale. ...