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The work or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to an individual’s disability. This policy requires the development of a plan to ensure that persons using service animals have an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from healthcare services.
Service animals are permitted in all areas of Stanford Health Care that are open to the public, including most patient areas, provided the service animal does not pose a direct threat or fundamentally alter SHC’s operations or procedures.
Service Animals Policy and Procedure. Preamble. Service Animals are not pets. They are animals trained to provide assistance to a person with a disability. They are individually trained to assist people with disabilities in the activities of normal daily living, to enhance quality of life and mitigate their disabilities.
Examples of tasks that a service animal may perform include, but are not limited to, guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, fetching items, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, or assisting someone during a seizure.
We welcome people with service animals on ministry premises. Ministry leaders may ask individuals with service animals a few questions, including: • Is the animal required because of a disability? • What work or task has the animal been trained to perform? Emotional Support Animals An emotional support animal (also known as a comfort animal ...
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that service animals that accompany patients, staff and visitors with disabilities have public access to Stanford Health Care (SHC) facilities, except where the access may present risk to the animals or patients.
12 gru 2023 · The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America offers extensive guidelines for policy consideration for animals in healthcare environments, categorized into four buckets: animal-assisted activities (e.g., animal therapy programs), service animals, research animals, and personal pet visitation.
