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A hospital can require a disabled nurse to satisfy the same high performance standards that apply to nurses generally, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan held in Harrison v Spectrum Health. While a hospital, like other employers, must provide reasonable accommodations to enable employees with disabilities to perform essential job functions, lowering job standards as an "extraordinary accommodation" is not required by the ADA. Go to link for full text of this case.
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