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ACEP Launches Pilot Phase of Its Emergency Dept. Accreditation Program

ACEP Now

We understand there are large community hospitals, academic centers and rural hospitals with vastly different resources and needs. ED ACCREDITATION ACEP’s ED Accreditation Program will include Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Rural Emergency or Critical Access Hospital accreditation. There are five sets of domains.

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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

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 Even more so, nurses left practice or migrated to non-hospital settings. Here’s what the government can do to impact the hospital crowding and ED boarding crisis.