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Disability advocates press committee for enforcement, lifts and accessible exam equipment after law passed last year
Summary
Disability advocates and medical professionals urged the committee to require enforcement and inventories for accessible medical diagnostic equipment and to add language ensuring availability and staff training for patient lifts; they asked that pending technical bills and enforcement provisions be consolidated into DPH revisions.
A large contingent of disability advocates, occupational and physical therapists, caregivers and clinicians told the Public Health Committee that last year’s law requiring accessible medical diagnostic equipment was a first step but lacks enforcement and effective implementation.
Witnesses described repeated problems in clinical settings: inaccessible exam tables, unavailable or incompatible patient lifts, scales that do not accommodate wheelchairs and understaffed or untrained personnel.…
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