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ACEP Launches Pilot Phase of Its Emergency Dept. Accreditation Program

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We understand there are large community hospitals, academic centers and rural hospitals with vastly different resources and needs. However, when a patient walks through the door, they want to know there are resources available for that ED to delivery high quality care.” There are five sets of domains.

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

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Our Indiana ACEP colleagues have helped us all as emergency physicians in championing the passage of state legislation mandating a physician leading a hospital’s emergency department to be physically present in that hospital. We must always work against a balance.

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ED Boarding

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Hospital crowding and ED boarding have been longstanding and persistent crises for more than two decades, yet have progressively worsened over the COVID-19 pandemic.2 2 Early pandemic days brought uncertainty, personal risks to clinicians, and waves of COVID-19 patients. There is no easy fix to the nurse-supply problem.