Crowding & Boarding

Connecticut ACEP Leads Efforts to Boost Hospital Transparency Around Boarding Crisis

ACEP members are tackling the boarding crisis from every angle. A multi-year effort by Connecticut ACEP to work with the Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit health care watchdog organization, could m...

ACEP Provides Feedback on CMS Boarding Measure

ACEP Leads National Summit on the Boarding Crisis

Leave without being seen

It's a tragedy

It is only a matter of time

Killing our patients

No end in sight

Getting numb

No privacy and no rest

New placement

Acts of bravery

And so they stay

Verge of collapsing

Languishing

Unsustainable

No open PICU beds

Make waves

Diversion

Severe overcrowding

Transfer

Something has to be done

Needle in a haystack

Hallway beds

Budget issues

Zero beds available

Life-threatening issue

MacGyver solutions

Emergent conditions

Sick kids are stuck

Frightened and in pain

The health of our nation

Slumped in their chair

Please do something

Awaiting inpatient psychiatric care

Why?

Without privacy

Children's hospitals throughout the country

Not a safe situation

In the waiting room

Patients hate it

Nowhere to go

I hope I make it

ED never closes

No net at all

Looking for beds

Our sickest patients

Skin in the game

Awaiting acceptance

We need help

Full

My plea

High costs

Not uncommon

Moral injury

In dire straits

Boarding in the ER hallway

Snapshot

Hopeless and beaten down

Bed assignment

A commitment to provide rapid care

35 Boarders

Trapped

No beds

No nurses

People keep coming

Dangerously Overcrowded

At the breaking point

Help needed—to say the least!

My last shift

Every available space

Crash and burn

In the hallway

Psychiatric holds

Waiting and waiting

Heroic efforts

Rooms no bigger than closets

In shock

A crisis!

Timely transfer

A national issue

No room to go

Yes, boarding is bad

Underserved, under resourced

Not safe

An afterthought

Feel human

The patients overflow

Social safety net

For days to weeks

Do the math

Burnout

No limits

Wait list

Killing the morale

Over four weeks in the emergency department

No sign of easing up

Since I was in Iraq

The new reality

Everything with nothing

Interrupting patient care

Drowning

No space

Our most vulnerable patients

Died unnoticed

ED Boarding Overview

Emergency Department Boarding

Hospital Flow Solutions

Emergency Department Operations Management (Information Paper)

New York Department of Health Guidance Document for Hospitals - Hospital Obligations & Responsibilities

Massachusetts Crowding Bill

New York Chapter ACEP Testimony

Massachusetts Crowding Bill Fact Sheet

Boarding of Admitted and Intensive Care Patients in the Emergency Department

Definition of Boarded Patient

Crowding

Boarding of Pediatric Patients in the Emergency Department

Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding

State Approaches to Boarding & Crowding