Since 1970, advocates for the Emergency Medicine specialty.
Check back often to get the latest news for the Commonwealth’s emergency physicians. You can also check out EmergencyPhysicians.org, the official ACEP news site.
With a delegation of nearly 20 physicians and support staff, Virginia emergency medicine leaders took a front-row seat in Washington last week at the American College of Emergency Physicians Leadership & Advocacy Conference. Get the rundown of the day as well as ACEP’s issue papers on the four topics we covered with Congressional lawmakers.
Testing for COVID-19 is no longer required for individuals age 65 and under prior to admission to Virginia state-run behavioral health facilities. Many private hospitals have followed suit. We’ve got all the details on the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS)’s revised COVID-19 admissions guidance.
ACEP President Aisha T. Terry, MD, MPH, FACEP addressed several critical emergency medicine issues at VACEP ‘24. Her attendance marks the third straight year that VACEP has brought ACEP’s emergency physician leader directly to Virginia’s emergency medicine community.
Emergency physician leaders from Virginia and the American College of Emergency Physicians briefed attendees at VACEP ‘24 on key legislation considered in Richmond this year.
This week, the Virginia General Assembly reaches its halfway mark known as Crossover. Here’s the latest on the priority legislation that VACEP is tracking.
A look at the issues we are following, supporting, and opposing in the 2024 General Assembly.
Here’s a look at where VACEP improved the speciality for Virginia emergency physicians — and set precedents nationwide — in 2023.
This year, a legal case VACEP was heavily involved in set a precedent for all potential challenges and threats to the prudent layperson standard (PLP). That’s the verdict in an article on ACEP Now, where VACEP President Todd Parker, MD, FACEP co-authored a piece recapping the legal underpinnings of Virginia's recently repealed "Downcoding Provision.”
Physicians from Eastern Virginia Medical School review the recent peer-reviewed clinical study, Diagnostic Accuracy of Unenhanced Computed Tomography for Evaluation of Acute Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department.
