A national report card aimed at calling attention to the support states provide to emergency patients has been released by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
The state of emergency care in America received low marks in a report released today by an objective panel of emergency medical experts. The first-ever National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine finds an emergency care system characterized by overcrowding, declining access to care, soaring liability costs and a poor capacity to deal with public health or terrorist disasters.
Read full news release from American College of Emergency Physicians: EIGHTY PERCENT OF COUNTRY EARNED MEDIOCRE OR NEAR-FAILING GRADES IN FIRST-EVER ‘REPORT CARD’ ON STATE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE