American College of Emergency Physicians
Need free educational resources for accreditation?
The GEDC’s mission is to improve geriatric emergency care through education, implementation, and high-quality research. The GEDC can help your ED and your healthcare system implement high-quality geriatric care and achieve GED accreditation by providing tailored resources and the individualized support you need. Learn More
First Step
Don’t know where to start? Join the GEDC to access free educational material and toolkits. Joining the GEDC is quick, easy, and free. As a GEDC member, you will be able to join webinars and roundtable discussions with geriatric EM experts and leaders. If you want more individualized help, you can engage the GEDC’s consulting services to perform a gap analysis, create your accreditation plan, and strategize about how to meet your hospital’s strategic goals within your ED. By partnering with the GEDC you can share your hospital’s pain points and the GEDC’s consulting team and faculty experts will help you create an accreditation plan tailored to your institution’s needs. Learn More
GEDC Offering
Resource Library
Find resources and toolkits for many of the care processes you will implement, including falls and mobility, transitions of care, frailty, cognitive impairments, staffing and education, and more for medical professionals interested in providing high-quality care to older adults. These resources and toolkits will help you implement new care processes in your ED to improve care and achieve accreditation. Learn More
GEDC Online Learning
The GEDC offers a full set of free, online courses covering all key topics in the care and management of older adults in the Emergency Department. New courses are being added regularly, so check the website for new content frequently. These courses can benefit all members of the multi-disciplinary EM team, including Allied Health Professionals, Healthcare Executives, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Physicians, Physician Assistants, Resident Fellows, Social Workers, and Students.
All GEDC courses offered are free and most include Continuing Professional Development and Continuing Medical Education and Continuing Nursing Education (CPD or CME or CNE) Credits. Learn More
Consulting and Services
The GEDC Consulting Team can work with your site and health system leaders to create a customized engagement that will ensure your ED or health system achieves its accreditation goals and provides a plan for future advancement. Consulting engagements are tailored to your specific needs and can include a bootcamp to train your entire multidisciplinary team, an accreditation gap analysis, an accreditation and QI plan, an assessment and plan to meet your own hospital’s strategic goals and key performance metrics, accreditation support, and other catered engagements to help you achieve excellence in geriatric emergency medicine care. Learn More
Research Opportunities
Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR) is a research infrastructure. Through research, its mission is to generate evidence to improve the emergency care of older adults and those with dementia and other cognitive impairments. For more information or to access available resources, please visit the GEAR website.
