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Guide to the ADA Standards

Example: Clinical Suite

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This facility includes public and common use areas and employee work areas.

Floor plan of clinical suites with waiting area, exam rooms and doctors’ offices, mechanical rooms (exempt space), dressing rooms, toilet rooms, break rooms, and highlighted as employee work areas: reception/files area, nurses’ station, and janitor’s closet. Figure notes: Public Use Spaces (§201) – waiting area - Full access to public use areas, including waiting areas and corridors Exam Rooms and Offices (§201 and §203.9) All exam rooms and offices used by the public must be accessible, but elements within these rooms that are used only by employees for work are not required to comply. Mechanical Room (§203.5) Exempt Space Employee Work Areas (§203.9) Partial access to areas used only by employees for work (reception/ file areas, nurses’ station, and janitor’s closet) Dressing Rooms (§222) Access is required to at least 5% (but no less than 1) of each type of use in each cluster. Toilet Rooms (§213) Access is required to all public and employee toilet rooms (or no more than 50% of single user toilet rooms for each use at each cluster). Common Use (Non-Work) Areas (§201) Full access to break rooms and to other employee areas not used for work purposes

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