Medical property is the one category where the standard is not “open by business hours.” It is continuous, it is overnight, and the people arriving are the least able to cope with an icy approach.
A clinic opening at 7 a.m. needs the lot done before staff arrive. An urgent care or a facility with after-hours access needs coverage through the night, which is a staffing commitment rather than a route position.
Accessible stalls, access aisles and the route from them to the door are the highest-priority square footage on the property — not the last pass. That ordering should be explicit in the contract.
Canopy approaches and transfer zones have to stay clear and stay treated, and they are exactly where refreeze happens because of the shelter overhead.
Timestamped service logs and recorded salt quantities. On a property whose visitors are disproportionately elderly or mobility-impaired, the log is not paperwork — it is the record of what was done and when.
Trigger depths here are typically at the low end of the commercial range — one inch rather than two — and anti-icing before a forecast storm is usually worth more than de-icing after it, because the bond never forms. How ice control actually works.
One local fact worth building into the plan: several cities' own sidewalk crews take days, not hours. Richfield notes transit stops can take up to three days; White Bear Lake says sidewalks can take two to three. If a transit stop serves your entrance, that gap is yours to cover.
Lot size, accessible route count, canopy and transfer zones, and the hours you actually need it open.
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