Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Virginia Department of Health
 
Board
State Board of Health
 
chapter
Regulations for Licensure of Abortion Facilities [12 VAC 5 ‑ 412]
Action Amend Regulations Following Periodic Review
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 2/11/2015
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1/12/15  12:37 pm
Commenter: Melissa McSherry

Support for evidence based medical requirements
 

Virginia Board of Health,  I am writing to encourage you to make evidence based decisions in your consideration of changes to the TRAP regulations.  It is hard to see how number of parking spaces or type of water fountain have a meaningful impact on patient safety, particularly when weighed against the negative impact of less access to health care.  I am also writing to suggest you consider whether applying these types of regulations to ALL health care facilities (e.g. oral surgeons or dermatologists perfoming procedures in their offices) would pass the common sense test.  If not, then it would seem these regulations have little to do with health.  Thank you for your time and careful consideration.

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