And during ACEP’s 2023 Leadership and Advocacy Conference (LAC), hundreds of emergency physicians mobilized and took our concerns to Capitol Hill to urge elected officials to act.
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ACEP Now: Vol 43 – No 11 – November 2024ACEP members moved the needle—our advocacy secured the signatures of 44 elected officials on a letter from Congress to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), doubling down on the need to convene stakeholders and identify solutions. Just a few months later, HHS announced its plans for what ultimately became the Summit in October.
Emergency physician leadership will be a critical part of any meaningful solution to the boarding crisis, and ACEP is making sure your voice continues to be heard.
“This community is not a bunch of emergency physicians pounding their fists on the table,” Dr. Carr said at the Summit. “These are folks that can see the failed social policy and the chinks in the armor of the health care system and can help you (AHRQ) to find not a magical silver bullet—there is not one—but a matrixed number of incentives and structural changes and transparency that can get us to a place where we have a health care system that we are proud of.”
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