Why Your ED Leadership Team Should Attend

Long Waits * Holding Admitted Patients * Staffing Shortages
 Efficiency Challenges * Slow Throughput Times 
Specialty Back-Up Challenges * Low Patient Satisfaction Scores  
Burn Out * Lack of Surge Capacity * Lack of Comparative Data 
Variability in Physician Practice * Computerization Woes

Many, if not most, of the nation’s Emergency Departments are experiencing substantial challenges.  The list above is certainly not exhaustive.  Yet, some departments are faring substantially better than others.  What are they doing that your ED isn’t?  What are the proven “secrets” that have allowed some EDs to be truly great while dealing with the same stressors that most EDs have?

Bring your ED team to an intensive 15-hour course taught by a faculty of experts who have truly “been there, done that.”  Through an interactive format you and key ED leaders from your facility will learn the “nuts and bolts” of how to make your ED better using proven, successful strategies.

Sure, every ED is different.  At least to some extent, however, most have many of the same problems.  And there is no point taking the “trial and error” approach when some strategies are doomed to failure while others have been proven to be successful.  After interacting with the faculty and course participants, you’ll return to your ED with a renewed energy and commitment to put into practice a myriad of strategies that will help you take your ED from good to great!

Intended Audience / Learning Objectives

Taking Your ED From Good To Great, the Advanced ED Management Course, is intended for Emergency Department Medical and Nursing Directors, as well as hospital executives who are seeking information to optimize the function of their departments.  The course is intended to be an advanced, intensive program that will provide participants with concrete strategies to address the multiple challenges that confront modern Emergency Departments.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify opportunities to improve ED operations
  • Implement solutions for a broad spectrum of ED operational issues
  • Provide a mechanism for continued performance improvement
  • Incorporate essential elements and strategies for developing a successful ED redesign project

CME Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) and the Center for Medical Education, Inc.  

The Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) designates this educational activity for a maximum of 19.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  (4.0 for ED Redesign Mini-Course and 15.0 for ED Good to Great). Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Approved by the American Osteopathic Association for 19 hours of AOA Category 2-A Credit.

Application has been made to the American College of Emergency Physicians for ACEP Category I credit.

Course Sponsors

The ED Benchmarking Alliance

The ED Benchmarking Alliance is a consortium of approximately 140 hospitals that compare key emergency department operation statistics on an annual basis to help facilitate organizational improvements and track trends in the industry.  Through the identification and dissemination of best practices, it is hoped to create EDs that function well for patients, communities, hospitals and their medical staffs. 

The Center for Emergency Medical Education, Inc.

The Center for Emergency Medical Education is an ACCME-accredited organization that sponsors educational courses for the emergency medicine community.  It is the coproducer of the National Emergency Medicine Board Review, the largest course of its kind in the country, and the producer of High Risk Emergency Medicine, a two-day course, now in its 19th year, that focuses on limiting error and promoting safe, effective patient care.

Emergency Medical Abstracts

Emergency Medical Abstracts, now in its 31st year of publication, reviews the contents of more than 600 journals monthly and identifies key articles relevant to emergency medicine.  Through the publication of abstracts and audio commentaries, EMA has been keeping over 5,000 physicians abreast of the latest information in emergency medicine, both clinically and operationally, in order for patients to receive state-of-the-art care. The Center for Medical Education, Inc., is the parent company of Emergency Medical Abstracts.