Snow & ice management for medical facilities
Zero-tolerance clearing for the entrances, drop-off lanes, and walks that patients cross with a cane, a walker, or a wheelchair.
A medical building cannot close for weather, and the people walking in are the ones least able to handle ice: patients on crutches, older adults, someone being helped from a car into a wheelchair. An inch of snow a warehouse can ignore is a hazard at a clinic door.
We have cleared commercial properties across Macomb, Oakland, and St. Clair counties since 1993, and medical campuses are part of that route book. Medical sites usually carry a zero-tolerance trigger in the contract: crews start at the first accumulation on the surfaces patients use, not at two inches.
What we cover at a medical site
Built around patient hours
Clinics open early, and urgent care and emergency entrances do not close at all. Storm response runs 24/7 from November 15 to April 15, and routes are sequenced so entrances and accessible spaces are clear before the first appointment, with walks re-treated while snow is still falling rather than after the storm ends.
The path from car to door
Patient falls happen in a short stretch: the curb at the drop-off, the ramp, the line where the vestibule mat ends. Sidewalk crews clear and treat those surfaces around the canopy, where a plow cannot reach, and accessible spaces and ramps are written into the scope as priority surfaces instead of being left for last.
Documentation a risk manager expects
Health systems and practice groups answer to risk managers and carriers. Every event is time-stamped in LMN, every truck is GPS tracked, and on-site cameras back up the log. Certificates of insurance ($2,000,000 general liability and $2,000,000 auto) go in your file before the season starts.
Common questions
- Do you offer zero-tolerance snow removal for medical buildings?
- Yes. The trigger for entrances, drop-off lanes, and accessible routes can be set at first accumulation and written into the contract. Lower-priority areas such as staff overflow lots can carry a higher trigger to control cost.
- Can you keep ambulance and emergency access open during a storm?
- Ambulance approaches, fire lanes, and loading docks are scoped as priority surfaces in your contract and worked under our 24/7 storm response, November 15 to April 15.
- What records do we get if a patient slips?
- Time-stamped plow and salt logs in LMN, backed by GPS tracking on every truck and on-site cameras. It is one continuous record you can hand to your carrier or your attorney.
- We run several clinics. Can one contract cover them?
- Yes. Multiple medical buildings run under one agreement with one account manager and the same zero-tolerance standard at every address in our service area.
Request a snow proposal
Tell us about the property, or the whole portfolio. A senior estimator walks the site, sets your trigger depth with you, and sends a written all-inclusive and per-push proposal. One site or fifty, you get one account manager.