Crowding & Boarding

Emergency Physicians Welcome Additional Hospital Reporting Measures on Boarding

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...

Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding

ACEP Provides Feedback on CMS Boarding Measure

ACEP Leads National Summit on the Boarding Crisis

Awaiting inpatient psychiatric care

Feel human

Trapped

Languishing

I hope I make it

Unsustainable

At the breaking point

Leave without being seen

Why?

Make waves

Patients hate it

No open PICU beds

The patients overflow

Social safety net

No beds

No nurses

ED never closes

People keep coming

Dangerously Overcrowded

It's a tragedy

Without privacy

In dire straits

Boarding in the ER hallway

Children's hospitals throughout the country

Timely transfer

Snapshot

Not a safe situation

Hopeless and beaten down

A national issue

Bed assignment

No room to go

Yes, boarding is bad

Underserved, under resourced

It is only a matter of time

Killing our patients

Getting numb

No privacy and no rest

Not safe

In the waiting room

An afterthought

New placement

Acts of bravery

A commitment to provide rapid care

And so they stay

Nowhere to go

35 Boarders

Verge of collapsing

No end in sight

For days to weeks

Help needed—to say the least!

Sick kids are stuck

High costs

Frightened and in pain

Rooms no bigger than closets

Slumped in their chair

Please do something

My plea

Our most vulnerable patients

Died unnoticed

In shock

A crisis!

Not uncommon

The health of our nation

Moral injury

No net at all

Do the math

Burnout

Diversion

Looking for beds

No limits

Severe overcrowding

Wait list

Killing the morale

My last shift

Transfer

Something has to be done

Over four weeks in the emergency department

Every available space

No sign of easing up

Our sickest patients

Since I was in Iraq

Needle in a haystack

The new reality

Hallway beds

Budget issues

Skin in the game

Zero beds available

Crash and burn

Life-threatening issue

MacGyver solutions

Awaiting acceptance

Everything with nothing

Interrupting patient care

Drowning

We need help

In the hallway

No space

Psychiatric holds

Full

Waiting and waiting

Emergent conditions

Heroic efforts

ED Boarding Overview

Emergency Department Boarding

Hospital Flow Solutions

Emergency Department Operations Management (Information Paper)

Massachusetts Crowding Bill

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

New York Chapter ACEP Testimony

Massachusetts Crowding Bill Fact Sheet

State Approaches to Boarding & Crowding