AHRQ Summit to Address Emergency Department Boarding | October 8, 2024 | Part 2

Boarding in emergency departments is a health system, public health, and health equity issue. Patients who need to be admitted to the hospital may spend hours - or in some cases, days - in the emergency department while waiting for an inpatient bed or transfer to another facility. This ultimately decreases quality of care, increases patient safety risks, and hinders access to care for patients while straining emergency department staff and hospital resources.
The goal of this Summit is to engage public and private partners, including patients and consumers, clinicians, hospital and health system leaders, policy makers, experts in emergency medicine, community health, behavioral health, and specialty care providers, to identify actionable hospital- and health system-level solutions to systematically address emergency department boarding.
To learn more, please visit the AHRQ Emergency Department Resource Page (link: www.ahrq.gov/t....
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