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Timothy C. Peck, MD – Full Interview

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ACEP Now : Boarding What obstacles exist in Congress to address hospital boarding? testifying before Congress to advocate for telemedicine and value based care. There’s no hard line for how many hours you should be measured on in terms of boarding or in terms of how long you’re in the emergency department.

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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

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He completed residency in emergency medicine through Emory while training at Grady Hospital in Atlanta. Most recently, Dr. McCormick served as an emergency physician at Northside Hospital. In the Atlanta region, we had AMC, one of the largest hospitals in the region closed. Overburden the other hospital systems.

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SGEM#308: Taking Care of Patients Everyday with Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners

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Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. The impact of advanced practice provider staffing on emergency department care: productivity, flow, safety, and experience. Reference: Pines et al. AEM November 2020. AEM November 2020. AEM November 2020.

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PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 5: The Boarded ED Patient

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Episode 4 covered management of the agitated child in the pre-hospital environment. And now we’re here at our destination, the place we know and love, the emergency room to talk about what we should be doing for the growing volume of children with mental health problems boarding in the emergency department.

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ED Boarding

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In November 2022, the American College of Emergency Physicians sent a letter to President Biden on behalf of 34 organizations, asking to convene stakeholders to identify solutions to address the emergency department (ED) boarding crisis.1 Even more so, nurses left practice or migrated to non-hospital settings.