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Medical diagnostic equipment: accessibility duties of health care facilities and practice locations
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-490dd(b), (d), (e)
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
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What it requires
- If you are a health care facility (a hospital, outpatient clinic, long-term care facility or hospice facility) or a practice location (the office of a practice of nine or more physicians or advanced practice registered nurses), take into consideration the technical standards for accessibility of the federal Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board for medical diagnostic equipment (section 19a-490dd(b)).
- Train all staff with direct patient care responsibilities on your policies and procedures for addressing patients' access to care, and designate a contact phone number and the steps patients may take to ask for assistance with access needs, posted on your Internet web site or otherwise made readily available to the public (section 19a-490dd(d)(1), (2)).
- Take and document an inventory of medical diagnostic equipment that meets and does not meet the standards for accessibility, with an action plan for the gaps, and make it available to the Department of Public Health on request (section 19a-490dd(d)(3)).
- From , if you have three or more examination rooms, verify or obtain assurances from the seller that medical diagnostic equipment you buy, lease or replace meets the standards for accessibility and keep the documentation, have an accessible examination table or chair in at least one examination room, and have at least one accessible weight scale if you use a scale (section 19a-490dd(e)).
- It is not a violation of subsection (e) if you cannot obtain equipment commercially available at a commercially reasonable price, are delayed by a municipal or state approval, or meet an exclusion or exemption in federal disability law that is the same as or substantially similar (section 19a-490dd(f)).
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What this law does
Section 19a-490dd of the General Statutes defines a health care facility as a hospital, outpatient clinic, long-term care facility or hospice facility. A practice location is the office of a practice of nine or more physicians or advanced practice registered nurses, or a combination of them. Each health care facility and practice location shall take into consideration the standards for accessibility.
The standards for accessibility are the technical standards for medical diagnostic equipment developed by the federal Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board. Not later than , each health care facility and practice location shall train staff with direct patient care responsibilities on its policies for addressing patients' access to care.
On and after , until federal regulations on the accessibility of medical diagnostic equipment under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 become mandatory, each facility or practice location with three or more examination rooms shall, when purchasing, leasing, replacing or otherwise obtaining medical diagnostic equipment, independently verify or obtain assurances from the seller that the equipment complies with the standards for accessibility.
It is not a violation of subsection (e) if the facility is unable to obtain equipment that is commercially available at a commercially reasonable price. Public Act 22-58 took effect , and Public Act 24-113 added the practice location definition and subsections (d) to (f) effective .
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