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

Languishing

Unsustainable

No open PICU beds

It's a tragedy

It is only a matter of time

Killing our patients

Make waves

And so they stay

Verge of collapsing

No end in sight

Getting numb

No privacy and no rest

New placement

Acts of bravery

Sick kids are stuck

Frightened and in pain

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

The health of our nation

Slumped in their chair

Please do something

Emergent conditions

Awaiting inpatient psychiatric care

I hope I make it

Without privacy

Children's hospitals throughout the country

Not a safe situation

Why?

Patients hate it

ED never closes

Nowhere to go

In the waiting room

High costs

Not uncommon

No net at all

Looking for beds

Our sickest patients

Skin in the game

My plea

Full

Moral injury

Awaiting acceptance

We need help

Trapped

In dire straits

Boarding in the ER hallway

Snapshot

Hopeless and beaten down

Bed assignment

No beds

No nurses

People keep coming

Dangerously Overcrowded

At the breaking point

A commitment to provide rapid care

35 Boarders

Help needed—to say the least!

Rooms no bigger than closets

In shock

A crisis!

My last shift

Every available space

Crash and burn

Waiting and waiting

Heroic efforts

In the hallway

Psychiatric holds

Feel human

The patients overflow

Social safety net

Timely transfer

A national issue

No room to go

Yes, boarding is bad

Underserved, under resourced

Not safe

An afterthought

For days to weeks

Our most vulnerable patients

Died unnoticed

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

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