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September 13, 2024 • GEDA News and Events
This programmatic measure assesses hospital commitment to improving care for patients ≥ 65 years of age receiving services in the hospital, operating room (OR), or emergency department (ED).
August 21, 2024 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section
As the population of older adults expands rapidly, more attention is being paid to how to successfully treat them.
June 26, 2024 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section
Take a look at the upcoming GEMS meetings and educational opportunities for the remainder of 2024 (PDF)!
April 17, 2024 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section
Becoming a member of the GEMS board is a GREAT way to increase your involvement in the section. Nominations are currently open until August 21, 2024.
April 11, 2024 • Latest News
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to adopt the Age-Friendly Hospital Measure, as part of the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS).
October 17, 2023 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section
Developed to honor someone whose work and advocacy has furthered the field of Geriatric Emergency Medicine, especially those who are unfunded/volunteers.
August 29, 2023 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section
The Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Program continues to thrive! With 500 GED accredited sites spanning 47 states and six countries, 34 health systems moving towards full accreditation fo...
Philadelphia Convention Center, Room 109AB Wednesday, October 11, 2023 2:30-4:00 EST pm. The section meeting will be chocked full of information this year! Hear about GED Projects and Opportunities, S...
(Included with four-day ACEP23 registration) ROI in Geriatric Emergency Departments: It's more than just money 2.5 hours, Embedded in main conference, October 9, 2023 11:00 am- 1:30 pm EST
August 29, 2023
Do you know a resident or fellow who wants to have fun, work with a great team, and guide the future of Geriatric Emergency Medicine?
The goal of the geriatric section is to bring together our members who are passionate about geriatric emergency medicine.
July 20, 2023 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section
Apply to join the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section board as a resident or fellow member.
December 1, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section
Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH, FACEP is an attending emergency physician and division chief of geriatric emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH, FACEP The Geriatric EM Section is for you! The section aims to bring together our members who are passionate about geriatric emergency medicine and facilitate collaborations on...
Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH, took over as the Section Chair during ACEP22. Chair-Elect: Luna Ragsdale, MD, MPH, FACEP; is to assume the position of Section Chair at ACEP24 (Las Vegas) and serve as an offic...
It was great to connect with many of you at ACEP 2022! There was a lot afoot- between the pre-conferences, didactics, research presentations and, of course, our section meeting!
AARP and the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative teamed up to develop two short educational videos about dementia care and the risks of delirium, or sudden confusion, in the emergency departm...
The Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Program is thriving! With 380 GED accredited sites spanning 44 states and five countries, 24 health systems moving towards full accreditation for each ...
September 15, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section
Confused by the alphabet soup of facilities and agencies that provide care to older adults?
June 8, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section
Watch ACEP Geriatric Emergency Medicine discuss how to have our emergency medicine providers age in place. Think you may be aging out of night shifts? Hear about policies at different institutions to ...
March 31, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section
Lauren Southerland, MD, FACEP The Geriatric EM Section is active with tremendous momentum from the section members involved in daily geriatric emergency patient care. The section’s goal is simple; to ...
Rachel Skains, MD, MSPH; is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with an Instructor Fellow appointment in the Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)...
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States providing care to over 9 million Veterans annually. The health care system includes 111 eme...
This webinar hosted by the GEM Section will focus on the burden of night shifts in older emergency physicians. Stay tuned for more details. Tuesday, June 21, 2022: noon EST/11am CST / 9am PST. CME wil...
The Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Program is thriving! With 305 GED accredited sites spanning 42 states and four countries and more that 300 EDs on the interest list, these EDs are crea...
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