Medical Office Parking Lot Snow Removal

What This Service Involves

Patients arriving at a clinic are often elderly, injured, or unsteady, which makes an icy medical lot far more dangerous than a typical commercial one. Our operators plow the lot and treat the accessible spaces, ramps, and entrance approaches that Puget Sound patients on walkers and wheelchairs rely on. We clear early and monitor through the day, because a medical office runs appointments from open to close and cannot afford a midday hazard. Given how Western Washington ice tends to reappear after a partial thaw, we reapply deicer to the drop-off zone and handicap parking whenever refreeze threatens.

Benefits

Vulnerable patients reach the entrance over cleared, deiced surfaces; ADA spaces, ramps, and approaches get priority treatment; all-day monitoring covers appointments from open to close; drop-off zones are re-treated whenever refreeze threatens; documented care lowers the practice's slip-and-fall exposure

Our Process

1) Identify ADA spaces, ramps, and patient drop-off zones with clinic staff; 2) Plow the lot and clear accessible parking first; 3) Deice ramps, entrances, and the drop-off area; 4) Reapply treatment through the day as partial thaw refreezes

What Affects the Cost

Lot size and count of standard versus ADA spaces; number of ramps and accessible approaches; length of the appointment day requiring monitoring; frequency of reapplication during freeze-thaw; deicer chosen for high pedestrian and mobility-aid traffic

Best Time of Year

Medical office lots in Western Washington see peak winter demand from December through February, when freeze-thaw cycles are most frequent.