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ACEP Launches Pilot Phase of Its Emergency Dept. Accreditation Program

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ED ACCREDITATION ACEP’s ED Accreditation Program will include Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Rural Emergency or Critical Access Hospital accreditation. In 2022, only 25 percent of the patients needing OUD treatment received it, according to the report. There are five sets of domains.

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ED Boarding

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1 The letter detailed ED physician stories, highlighting the preventable harms from boarding, crowding, long waits, staff shortages, burnout, and the disproportionate impact on behavioral health and pediatric populations. It should also differentiate boarding times for psychiatric patients, who are at high risk for very prolonged boarding.