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2023 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect and Council Officer Candidates

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Colleagues at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have developed a robust telehealth network with over 25 critical access hospitals in that state. One of the major areas of focus must be on the distribution of emergency physicians with opportunities within residency to have substantive rural and critical access experience.

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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

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These stakeholders are similarly shielded in court when adverse patient outcomes, such as negligent deaths, occur under their management or when the bought-out companies are challenged for anticompetitive business practices overseen by the PE firm. They leave the area deprived of access.” Published July 10, 2023. Cai C, Song Z.

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ED Boarding

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ED crowding and boarding are causing patient experiences and outcomes to worsen. Accessed July 13, 2023. The effect of emergency department crowding on clinically oriented outcomes. Monthly rates of patients who left before accessing care in us emergency departments, 2017-2021. Accessed July 13, 2023.