AHRQ Summit to Address Emergency Department Boarding

https://www.hhs.gov/live/index.html An AHRQ summit on Oct. 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET will address the challenges of emergency department (ED) boarding. The live stream webcast will be aimed at identifying hospital- and health system-level solutions to circumstances that sometimes force patients to spend hours—or in some cases, days—in the ED while waiting for an inpatient bed or transfer to another facility. Interested audiences may include patients and consumers, clinicians, hospital and health system leaders, policy makers, experts in emergency medicine, community health, behavioral health, and specialty care providers. Brendan G. Carr, M.D., M.A., chief executive officer of Mount Sinai Health System, will be the featured speaker. The summit will also include a panel on the impacts of ED boarding and a session on “myths and matters” of ED boarding solutions.