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

No open PICU beds

People keep coming

In the waiting room

A commitment to provide rapid care

Dangerously Overcrowded

No privacy and no rest

Not safe

New placement

Patients hate it

No nurses

Feel human

Acts of bravery

And so they stay

Unsustainable

Without privacy

Snapshot

Hopeless and beaten down

Bed assignment

It's a tragedy

Timely transfer

A national issue

Underserved, under resourced

It is only a matter of time

Killing our patients

Getting numb

An afterthought

Why?

35 Boarders

Make waves

No beds

The patients overflow

Social safety net

I hope I make it

Awaiting inpatient psychiatric care

In dire straits

Boarding in the ER hallway

No room to go

Verge of collapsing

Children's hospitals throughout the country

No end in sight

Nowhere to go

At the breaking point

ED never closes

Trapped

Languishing

Leave without being seen

Not a safe situation

Yes, boarding is bad

Drowning

Awaiting acceptance

Our most vulnerable patients

Rooms no bigger than closets

Since I was in Iraq

Life-threatening issue

Psychiatric holds

Emergent conditions

Slumped in their chair

Please do something

Severe overcrowding

Every available space

Skin in the game

Crash and burn

Transfer

Hallway beds

Zero beds available

MacGyver solutions

The health of our nation

In shock

High costs

No net at all

Do the math

Burnout

My last shift

The new reality

We need help

My plea

Heroic efforts

Died unnoticed

A crisis!

Frightened and in pain

For days to weeks

Help needed—to say the least!

Everything with nothing

Interrupting patient care

In the hallway

No space

Full

Waiting and waiting

Moral injury

Not uncommon

Sick kids are stuck

Diversion

No limits

Wait list

Something has to be done

Over four weeks in the emergency department

No sign of easing up

Our sickest patients

Needle in a haystack

Budget issues

Looking for beds

Killing the morale

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

State Approaches to Boarding & Crowding