ACEP Leads Congressional Briefing to Push for Action on Boarding

On June 21, ACEP organized a congressional briefing with the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to express strong concerns to legislators about the impact of ED boarding on our healthcare safety net. ACEP President Dr. Christopher Kang spoke to a packed room of Congressional staff about daily challenges faced by emergency physicians face and ACEP’s potential solutions to ED overcrowding. “The crisis is bigger than can be managed by a single hospital or even the medical system alone. We need help from policymakers: READ MORE