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  Emergency Department Directors Dinner  
     
     
  Please join us for the Emergency Department Directors Dinner being held at 6:00 pm on January 24, 2012 at the Heldrich Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ.

Click here for registration form and additional information.

 
     
     
  A special thanks to our sponsors at the NJ-ACEP 2011 Scientific Assembly  
     
     
 

Cooper Health System
EmCare, Inc
Emergency Medical Associates
Medical Management Professionals
ScribeAmerica

 
     
     
  Bio of the Month  
  Victor Almeida, DO, FACEP, FACOEP, NJ-ACEP President 2011-2012  
     
     
  I want to thank all for their support during my last two years with NJ-ACEP. I wish to compliment Dr. Scott Mankowitz, my predecessor, for all his diligent work. With the changing of the guard, I want to broadly outline my direction for the chapter for the year.

Communication
I have found that there are a small number of physicians engaged in the area of advocacy. I ask why? Is there a lack of information? Is there a lack of understanding of the impact laws may have on their practice. Are doctors just apathetic? Perhaps, it is because you do not get paid for your time? The political landscape is changing; being part of that change is of paramount importance in my opinion. For the last ten years I have worked with NJ-ACEP, I can provide testament that the same 40 physicians are working closely in our group, with a dozen of the same physicians involved year after year. While it is laudable that these individuals keep the organization viable and vibrant, it is also incumbent upon us to reach out to all members and engage and represent them. Some twelve years prior, we had a larger and broader participation from the membership as a whole. It is still unclear in retrospect why this change occurred; however, I want to move back to this model. To this end, NJ-ACEP will be reaching out to small and large groups alike who may not have been represented at the table. When one of our board members reaches out your departmental director, please listen and share the message with your staff. Ideally, I would request that your clinical site send a single representative to our quarterly meetings, on a rotating basis, to represent you and your clinical practice. We have a small state. This can be accomplished as we meet regularly and our distance is relatively small compared to other states.
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  ACEP’s Annual Leadership and Advocacy Conference  
     
     
  Nearly 500 emergency physicians from around the country gathered in Washington, D.C. for ACEP’s annual Leadership and Advocacy Conference. Doctors met with lawmakers on May 24 to discuss everything from liability reform to the costs of emergency care and reforming the Medicare physician payment formula. Some of our members were given a video camera to document their experience on Capitol Hill.

Several chapters were given a video camera to document their experience on Capitol Hill, including New Jersey, Colorado, Arizona, Tennessee, Michigan, Texas, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts are featured. Our own Bill Felegi, DO and Michael Gerardi, MD are featured.

Click here to watch

 
     
     
  Congratulations to our 2011 NJ-ACEP Award Winners  
     
     
 

Academic Achievement: Brigitte M. Baumann, MD, FACEP
Clinical Expertise: David J. Adinaro, MD, FACEP
Distinguished Service: Alfred D. Sacchetti, MD, FACEP
EMS: Robert L. Sweeney, DO, FACEP
Medical Student of the Year: Matthew Meigh
Resident of the Year: Matthew Davis

 
     
     
     
     
 
Incoming NJ-ACEP President, Victor Almeida, DO, says a special thank you to Outgoing President, Scott L, Mankowitz, MD, for his time as President from 2010-2011 at the NJ-ACEP 2011 Scientific Assembly Membership Luncheon.
 
     
     
  Washington Finalized their Opioid Prescription Guidelines  
     
     
  Click here to view the guidelines, for provider use only. Also click here to view the patient poster that will be hung in each ED waiting room and exam room in Washington state.  
     
     
     
     
 
ED Directors Dinner 2011 was held on January 18, 2011 at the Heldrich in New Brunswick, NJ with special guest presentations by The Honorable Stephen Sweeney, President of the New Jersey Senate as well as The Honorable Poonam Alaigh, MD, New Jersey Commissioner of Health & Senior Services. From left to right Hon. Poonam Alaigh, MD; Michael Chansky, MD; Hon Stephen Sweeney; Robert L. Sweeney, DO
 
     
     
  BC/BE EM Physicians  
     
     
  Physicians’ Practice Enhancement is currently seeking BC/BE EM physicians for FT and PT practice opportunities throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. We offer the opportunity to practice in a Community or Academic setting, faculty appointments are available. Competitive remuneration package offered. Please forward CV and letter of interest to smcginley@ppenet.com  
     
     
     
 
 
 
 
     
     
   
   
   
   

 

ACEP has launched a campaign to educate policymakers, the news media and the public about the value of emergency medicine and that emergency care constitutes less than 2% of all health care spending. To hear some talk about rising health care costs, you’d think it was more like 50%! Because of the cost-cutting environment in Washington and in state legislatures, this campaign is designed to promote the high value of emergency care. The campaign launched with a Health Writers’ Conference in New York, featuring ACEP members from Arizona, Connecticut, New York, Texas, Oregon and Washington, DC, highlighting different aspects of emergency care. In addition, the results of a new poll of ACEP members was released showing increased stress on emergency departments. ACEP spokespersons in 10 top media markets are conducting media interviews to promote the poll results and reinforce the “Just 2%” messages. The campaign will continue with print and radio ads through ACEP’s Leadership & Advocacy Conference this month in Washington.  
   
     
     
     

How did New Jersey's emergency medical care systems rate in ACEP's first-ever National Report Card on the State of Emergency Care?


 

 

Re-Certification Information

 

ABEM (American Board of Emergency Medicine)

ABEM Reading Lists: 2005-2006

AOBEM (American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine

New Jersey Emergency Services Council
“Blue Ribbon Panel”
EMS System Design Recommendations

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  Assignment of Benefits Law Takes Effect
January 16, 2011

 
     
 
 
     
 

Click here for NJHA’s compilation of regulatory requirements for emergency department services

 
 
This document provides side-by-side comparison of Conditions of Participation 42 C.F.R.
§ 482.55, N.J.A.C. 8:43G-12 and EMTALA - CMS Final Rule 489.20(1) by key category
 
     
 
 
     
 

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