Another member emphasized the importance of considering patients of short stature in addition to considering patients seated in a wheelchair....
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Breast Platform [M303.4.1]
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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?
Staff should be protected from injury, but that doesn’t justify refusing to provide equal medical services to individuals with disabilities....
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Detention Facilities and Correctional Facilities: ADA Standard Section 232
Section 232 covers scoping requirements in the current ADA Standards for detention facilities and correctional facilities.
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How: Tips on Completing Emergency Health Information
When completing your emergency health information (forms included at back of this guide) be sure and include: Disability/Conditions affecting emergency care (if you are not sure, list...
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Brewer Access™ High-Low Exam Table
The Brewer Company leads the industry in innovation through our comprehensive line of power procedure tables, exam tables, seating, lighting, and broad line of durable medical...
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§ 38.95(c)(4) Ramp barriers
(4) Ramp barriers. Each side of the ramp or bridge plate shall have barriers at least 2 inches high to prevent mobility aid wheels from slipping off.
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§ 38.95(b)(5) Platform barriers
(5) Platform barriers. The lift platform shall be equipped with barriers to prevent any of the wheels of a wheelchair or mobility aid from rolling off the lift during its operation....
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Communication Access
guidelines noted in Section K, L, M and strive to ensure notes, handouts, brochures, consent forms, health education materials, instructions and other materials where needed to ensure patient...
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ACCESS NOW, INC. v. AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER GROUP, LTD.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA MIAMI DIVISION CASE NO. 99-109-CIV-GARBER ACCESS NOW, INC., et....
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5.4.4 Transfer Support Distance from Transfer Surface Recommendations for M301 and M302
Discussion: The Access Board is considering whether the following technical criteria would be appropriate for the location and size of transfer supports on diagnostic equipment used by patients...
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Figure M3: Overview of M302 Diagnostic Equipment for Use by a Patient in a Seated Position
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Social Policy
Policies that prevent people from having access to comprehensive health care can be a huge barrier....
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5.1 Transfer Surface Height Recommendations
This height is also critical for patients who use mobility aids such as walkers and canes and may find it difficult to get up onto or down from an examination chair or table or imaging bed...
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5.4.1.2 Transfer and Positioning Support Location for Imaging Equipment
5.4.1.2 Transfer and Positioning Support Location for Imaging Equipment. Transfer supports should be provided for imaging equipment with transfer surfaces with depths of less than or...
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5.4.8 Transfer Support Gripping Surface Hazard Recommendation for M301 and M302
Rationale for the recommendation Gripping surface configurations must provide an effective and safe surface for patients to hold onto....
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M303.4.1 Breast Platforms
The height of the breast platform shall be 30 inches (760 mm) high minimum and 42 inches (1065 mm) high maximum above the floor when in use by a patient seated in a wheelchair....
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Familiarize Yourself with the Law
Familiarize Yourself with the Law Knowledge of the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) and its implementing regulations (14 CFR part 382) will permit you to be able to ask the right questions...
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§ 35.101(a) Purpose
The purpose of this part is to implement subtitle A of title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12131-12134), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADA...
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M301.3.2 Leg Supports (Section-by-Section Analysis)
In the MDE NPRM, the Access Board proposed to place the requirements for stirrups on diagnostic equipment used by patients in the supine, prone, or side-lying position in M301....
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B. Summary of Major Provisions and Organization of Technical Criteria
The technical requirements for diagnostic equipment used by patients in the supine, prone, or side-lying position and diagnostic equipment used by patients in the seated position focus on...
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Fair Housing Act
The Fair Housing Act requires owners of housing facilities to make reasonable exceptions in their policies and operations to afford people with disabilities equal housing opportunities....
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Defining and Delivering Disability-Competent Care - Managing Transitions
This is the sixth webinar in Webinar Series #1, "Leading Healthcare Practices and Training: Defining and Delivering Disability-Competent Care"....
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Exam Tables and Chairs
Transfers may also require use of equipment, such as a transfer board or patient lift....
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M305.2.7 Clearance (Section-by-Section Analysis)
MDE Advisory Committee Report, 100, available at https://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/health-care/about-this-rulemaking/advisory-committee-final-report....
