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ED report card needs improvement

Case Management Weekly, January 18, 2006

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Grades are in, and U.S. hospital emergency departments failed to make the honor roll in a first-of-its-kind study of the emergency medical care system, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians. A task force of experts from the group used a range of data to develop 50 measures for grading each state's emergency care system on a scale of A through F.

The U.S. emergency care system received an overall grade of C-minus, which represents the average of grades for all 50 states and Washington, D.C. California received the highest overall grade, with a B-plus, and Arkansas received the lowest overall grade, with a D. The report said that the emergency care system is characterized by overcrowding, declining access to care, soaring liability costs, and a poor capacity to deal with public health disasters or terrorist attacks.

Source: Bureau of National Affairs

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