Medical Equipment With Ada Compliance

It's crucial for medical practitioners to provide to their patients medical equipment

, podiatry equipment, dental equipment, plastic surgery equipment, and dermatology equipment that has ADA compliance. Individuals who have disabilities experience greater trouble with daily activities-including with getting access to daily preventive medical care-than do individuals without disabilities. A federal law, the Americans with Disabilities Act (or the ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. This law requires that all medical practitioners provide accessibility to all patients, including to those who have disabilities. Besides the civil rights aspect of accessible medical care, it's also important from a medical perspective for people with disabilities to get full access to services-so that their initial health issues are diagnosed and treated before becoming potentially life threatening.

The ADA mandates many criteria for medical equipment, to guarantee the equality of access to services between people with and without disabilities. Traditional fixed-height procedure, exam, or treatment tables and chairs are too high for patients with mobility disabilities. These individuals typically require adjustable-height chairs and tables. These can be properly lowered for normal floor entries and transfers from wheelchairs by individuals who are less flexible and mobile than average. ADA-compliant exam chairs and tables must go as low as wheel chair seats, that is, between 17 and 19 inches from the floor.

Procedure tables sometimes need support rails and handles for the stability, fall prevention, and support of patients with disabilities during transfers and during normal use. Such support rails and handles, as well as rolled-up towels, foam wedges, straps, and stabilization cushions must be available to be used with chairs and tables that are ADA compliant. Such support rails and armrests must also be removable and adjustable and must have continuous gripping surfaces.

Exam tables of various types are available for various uses. Some of them articulate or fold like chairs. Some are tilting so they provide patient support during transfer and positioning operations. Some simply remain flat. Whatever kind of style, exam chairs and tables must give equal accessibility to users of all kinds. This necessitates armrest, footrest, and headrest adjustability for options in supporting and positioning patients and for ease in their examination. Some exam chairs have dual-user power programmable positioning that rapidly facilitates tilt and lift functions to access frequently used positions, including flat, upright, trendelenburg, and contour.

Many medical professionals qualify to access the ADA Section 44 Tax Credit for their investment of equipment meeting ADA compliance. This federal government tax credit allows funding for up to half of the purchase price (as much as $5000) of medical equipment, podiatry equipment, dental equipment, or plastic surgery equipment and the like. This specific tax credit relates to many types of ADA mandated improvements for people with disabilities, including "access to medical care for individuals with mobility disabilities." The credit is potentially available to medical practitioners who purchase power chairs and tables for facilitating access to their medical, podiatry, dental, or plastic surgery patients.

by: Rachel Bates

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