The ACEP Council will be considering more than 70 resolutions at this year’s Council meeting, which will be held Oct. 23 in Boston. Read more about the resolutions here. ACEP members can comment on the resolutions via the ACEP website, and the asynchronous testimony period will close Oct. 14.
ACEP Now will take an in-dept look at several resolutions in a future issue.
2021 Council Resolutions
- Board of Directors Action on Council Resolutions-Bylaws Amendment
- Eligibility for Retired Membership-Bylaws Amendment
- Permitting Bylaws Amendments on the Unanimous Consent Agenda–Council Standing Rules Amendment
- ACEP President-Elect Selected Directly by Members
- Establishing a Young Physician Position on the ACEP Nominating Committee
- Member Determined Council Representation
- ACEP Group Membership
- Fair Emergency Physician Employment Contract Template
- Change to ACEP Conflict of Interest Statement
- Clear and Complete Conflict of Interest Disclosure at the Council Meeting
- Creation of the Social Emergency Medicine Association
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Expanding Diversity & Inclusion in Educational Programs
- Media Marketing of Value of Emergency Medicine Board Certification
- More Focused College
- ACEP Report Card
- Advocacy for Syringe Services Programs and Fentanyl Test Strips
- Conditional Support for Medicare-for-All
- Consumer Awareness Through Classification of Emergency Departments
- Downcoding
- Unfair Health Plan Payment Policies
- Employment-Retaliation, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Firearm Ban in EDs Excluding Active Duty Law Enforcement
- Formation of a National Bureau for Firearm Injury Prevention
- Global Budgeting for Emergency Physician Reimbursement in Rural and Underserved Areas
- Preserving Rural Emergency Care in Rural Critical Access Hospitals and Rural Emergency Hospitals
- Mitigating the Unintended Consequences of the CURES ACT
- Physician Pay Ratio
- Prehospital Oversight and Management of Patients Experiencing Hyperactive Delirium with Severe Agitation
- Recommit to Lessening Opioid Deaths in America
- Reimbursement for Naloxone Distributed from Emergency Departments
- Administration of COVID-19 Vaccines in the Emergency Department
- Autonomous “Shared Governance” Due Process
- Caring for Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients in the Emergency Department
- ED Performance Measures Data for Small, Rural, and Critical Access Hospital EDs
- Effects of EM Practice Ownership on the Costs and Quality of Emergency Care
- Family and Medical Leave
- Financial Incentives to Reduce ED Crowding
- Forced EMS Diversion
- Harms of Marijuana
- Medical Bill of Rights for Detained and Incarcerated persons While Receiving Emergency Medical Care
- Standardization of Medical Screening Exams of Arrested Persons Brought to the ED
- Reporting of Injuries Suspected or Reported to be Resulting from Law Enforcement Actions
- Understanding the Effects of Law Enforcement Presence in the ED
- Patient Experience Scores
- Race-Based Science and Detrimental Impact on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities
- Social Determinants of Health Screening in the Emergency Department
- Updating and Enhancing ED Buprenorphine Treatment Training and Support
- Use of Medical Interpreters in the Emergency Department
- Accountable Organizations to Resident and Fellow Trainees
- Advocating for a Required Emergency Medicine Rotation at All U.S. Medical Schools
- Support of Telehealth Education in Emergency Medicine Residency
- Physician-Led Team Leader Training
- Rural Emergency Medicine Education and Recruitment
- Rural Providers Support and a Call for Data
- ACEP Promotion of the Role of the Emergency Physician
- Patient Informed Consent
- Patient’s Right to Board Certified Emergency Physicians 24/7 (In-person or via Telehealth)
- Workforce Transparency
- Creation of Specialized Scope Expansion Advocacy Teams for State Level Advocacy
- Emergency Medicine Workforce by Non-Physician Practitioners
- Fair Compensation to Emergency Physicians for Collaborative Practice Agreements& Supervision
- Offsite Supervision of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
- Regulations by state medical Boards of All Who Engage in Practice of Medicine
- Required Clinical Experience for Emergency Nurses
- Standards for Non-Residency Trained Physicians and Mid-Levels to Work in Emergency Medicine
- Workforce Fairness
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