When it comes to boarding, ACEP leaders are keeping the pressure on. This week, ACEP met with the Biden Administration to discuss our proposal to require hospitals to have plans in place when they reach capacity.
Dr. Alison Haddock, president of ACEP, urged the White House Office of Management and Budget to adopt an ACEP-developed standard that would require hospitals to create and implement protocol to move admitted patients out of the emergency department when the hospital reaches a specific capacity threshold.
ACEP is doing everything possible to make sure policies developed by emergency physicians are included in the final rule, which is expected to be announced on November 1.
ACEP’s comprehensive multi-year efforts to address the root causes of boarding include alerting the White House, sounding the alarm through hundreds of troubling stories directly from the frontlines and tying boarding-related attestations to hospital performance measures, among other initiatives. Earlier this month, ACEP efforts culminated in a stakeholder summit convened by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
ACEP is making sure that emergency physicians have a prominent seat at the table for critical conversations that impact you and your patients.
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