M303 contains the technical requirements for diagnostic equipment used by patients seated in wheelchairs. In the final rule the Access Board made four significant changes to this...
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C. M303 Diagnostic Equipment Used by Patients Seated in a Wheelchair
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1. Width and Depth of Wheelchair Spaces
Another disability rights organization opined that most weight scales in healthcare settings are inaccessible to wheelchair users, asserting that even the “accessible” weight scales are...
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3. Exception to Ramp Running Slope
The MDE Advisory Committee, during its discussion of wheelchair spaces on weight scales, extensively addressed the permissible slopes of ramps on raised platforms....
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5. Edge Protection
The MDE NPRM proposed edge protection on the ramps leading up to the raised platform (proposed M303.3.3.4), but did not require edge protection on the raised platforms themselves....
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1. Standing Supports
The proposed rule included a provision requiring standing supports on each side of the standing surface and compliance with the technical requirements for standing supports in...
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b. Positioning Supports
The Access Board noted in the MDE NPRM preamble that it was considering adding positioning supports to the final rule and sought public input with question 24 on whether positioning...
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2. Standing Supports
The proposed rule provided technical criteria for vertical and horizontal standing supports. For horizontal standing supports, the Access Board proposed a gripping surface of 4...
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A. Medical equipment and furniture
Medical equipment and furniture Without accessible medical examination tables, dental chairs, radiological diagnostic equipment, scales, and rehabilitation equipment, individuals with...
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M101.2 Application (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Additionally, the final rule also exempts weight scales which contain a wheelchair space complying with M303 and that have a seat integral to the equipment from complying with M302 (M302.1...
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ii. Accessible scales
Patient weight can serve as a health indicator for many conditions, including depression, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and pregnancy....
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M302 Diagnostic Equipment used by Patients in a Seated Position (Section-by-Section Analysis)
M302 in the final rule establishes the technical criteria for diagnostic equipment used by patients in a seated position such as examination chairs.
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M303 Diagnostic Equipment Used by Patients in a Wheelchair (Section-by-Section Analysis)
M303 in the final rule establishes the technical requirements for diagnostic equipment used by patients seated in a wheelchair, such as weight scales with wheelchair spaces and mammography...
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M303.1 General (Section-by-Section Analysis)
This is an introductory section.
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M303.2 Wheelchair spaces (Section-by-Section Analysis)
This is an introductory section.
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M303.2.1 Orientation (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed to require wheelchair spaces to be designed so that a patient in a wheelchair using diagnostic equipment would be oriented in the same direction that other...
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M303.2.2 Width (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed to require that diagnostic equipment used by patients seated in a wheelchair provide a wheelchair space that was at least 36 inches wide. There were no public...
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M303.2.3 Depth (Section-by-Section Analysis)
for wheelchair approach, but is instead the wheelchair space integral to diagnostic equipment for a patient seated in a wheelchair, such as mammography equipment or wheelchair accessible scales...
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M303.2.5 Surfaces (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed to require diagnostic equipment used by patients seated in a wheelchair to provide a wheelchair space with a surface that does not slope more than 1:48 in any...
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M303.2.6 Edge Protection (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed edge protection on the ramps leading up to the raised platform (proposed M303.3.3.4), but did not require edge protection on the raised platforms themselves....
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M303.3 Entry (Section-by-Section Analysis)
This is an introductory section.
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M303.3.1 Vertical (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed that for equipment with a change in level at the entry to the wheelchair space, level changes of up to ¼ inch high are permitted to be vertical. This provision...
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M303.3.2 Beveled (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed that for equipment with a change in level at the entry to the wheelchair space, level changes greater than ¼ inch but not greater than ½ inch would be required...
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M303.3.3 Ramped (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed that for equipment with a change in level at the entry of a wheelchair space, level changes greater than ½ inch high would be required to be ramped and comply...
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M303.4 Components (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The MDE NPRM proposed to require diagnostic equipment used by patients seated in a wheelchair which has components that are used to examine specific body parts, be capable of...