Addressing Boarding and Crowding in the Emergency Department
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 35
- Latest action
- Apr 17, 2025
What it does
The Addressing Boarding and Crowding in the Emergency Department Act of 2025 (ABC-ED Act) would amend the Public Health Service Act to allow public health data modernization grants to be used for tracking hospital bed capacity and emergency department boarding rates through real-time data systems and public-facing dashboards. It would also amend the Social Security Act to include two new models in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation pilot program: one focused on improving emergency care for older adults through staffing, infrastructure, geriatric protocols, and post-acute care coordination, and another focused on improving emergency care for individuals experiencing acute…
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Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- John Joyce
- Al Green
- Chellie Pingree
- Cliff Bentz
- Darren Soto
- Debbie Dingell
- Deborah Ross
- Don Bacon
- Donald Davis
- Doris Matsui
- Earl Carter
- Eleanor Norton
- Eugene Vindman
- Gabe Amo
- Glenn Thompson
- Haley Stevens
- Jake Auchincloss
- Jason Crow
- Jay Obernolte
- Joe Neguse
- Joe Wilson
- John Rutherford
- Josh Gottheimer
- Kathy Castor
- Lauren Underwood
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks
- Mark Amodei
- Nanette Barragán
- Rashida Tlaib
- Ritchie Torres
- Salud Carbajal
- Sarah McBride
- Seth Magaziner
- Valerie Foushee
- William Keating
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