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ACEP Council Tackles Key Issues During Las Vegas Meeting

The ACEP Council considered 70 resolutions during its meeting in Las Vegas, Sept 27–28, with many of them drawing considerable debate before 55 were ultimately adopted.

As the College’s representative governing body, the Council meets annually to discuss and consider resolutions on issues impacting emergency physicians. Any member can submit a resolution if it is supported by at least one other ACEP member. If adopted by the Council and approved by a majority of the Board of Directors, the resolutions become official ACEP policy.

Of the resolutions considered, 55 were adopted, six were not adopted, one withdrawn, and nine referred to the Board of Directors. In addition to seven commendation resolutions and 11 memorial resolutions, the following resolutions were adopted:

Bylaws Resolutions

(Requires a two-thirds affirmative vote of the Board of Directors for adoption)

• 13 – Allocation of Councillors – Bylaws Amendment (as amended)
• 14 – College Parliamentary Authority – Bylaws Amendment (as amended)
• 16 – International Members Serving as Section Officers – Bylaws Amendment
• 17 – Removing Gendered Pronouns from ACEP’s Bylaws – Bylaws Amendment

Non-Bylaws Resolutions

• 15 – College Parliamentary Authority – Council Standing Rules Amendment
• 22 – Support for the “Well Workplace” Policy Statement (first resolved statement)
• 24 – Address ED Boarding and the Medicare Three-Midnight Rule for Post-Acute Rehabilitation
• 25 – Boarding – Follow the Money
• 26 – Ensuring Hospitals Consider Contributions of Boarding and Crowding to Safety Events (as amended)
• 29 – Minimum Standards for Freestanding Emergency Departments (as substituted)
• 30 – Hospital Network Requirements for Emergency Physicians
• 32 – Preventing Harmful Health Care Deals (as amended)
• 33 – Promotion of Nursing in Emergency Medicine (as amended)
• 34 – Reimbursement for Emergency Physician Services Provided

  Out-of-Hospital

• 35 – Sharing of Protected Health Information
• 36 – Reform to Improve Patient Access to Necessary Care (as amended)
• 37 – Reinforcing EMTALA in Pregnancy Related Emergency Medical Care
• 38 – Termination of Pregnancy (as substituted)
• 39 – Urgent Care Transparency on Available Resources and Credentials
• 41 – Workplace Violence (in lieu of resolutions 41 and 42 – as amended)
• 43 – Addressing Challenges Related to the New ABEM Oral Board Exam Format (as substituted … resolved statements 2, 3, 4)
• 44 – Building the Rural Emergency Medicine Workforce by Expanding Access to Rural Resident Rotations (as amended)
• 45 – Climate Change Research and Education in Emergency Medicine (as amended)
• 46 – Human Trafficking Training for All Emergency Medicine Residents (as amended)
• 47 – Human Trafficking is a Public Health Crisis (as amended)
• 48 – Alarm Fatigue (as amended)
• 49 – Centralized Repository of Credentialing Data (as amended)
• 50 – Communication to Established Patients Being Referred to the Emergency Department (as amended)
• 54 – Mandated Public Health Screening (as amended)
• 56 – Patient and Visitor Code of Conduct (as amended)
• 57 – Rationalizing Communication of Imaging Hazards to Improve Care (as amended)
• 58 – Reducing Waste in Our Emergency Departments (as amended)
• 59 – Tap Water is Sufficient
• 60 – Lethal Means Firearm Counseling (as amended)
• 61 – Safe Storage of Firearms (as amended)
• 62 – Stop the Bleed Education (as substituted)
• 70 – Reaffirming EMRA’s Vital Relationship with ACEP

Interested in the work that happens after a resolution is approved? Visit acep.org/council to view actions taken on recent resolutions and track their progress.