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ER Boarding Rates Impact
Boarding rates in the ER have been a topic of discussion for years, first starting when direct hospital admission got shut down during COVID, and bed availability shrank with both extended cleaning requirements, and sequestering of beds for infectious disease wings. Post-COVID, boarding rates continue to stay high or increase in some areas, as many presentations that used to be routed through primary care, nursing homes, urgent cares, or home health are presenting to the ED instead.
With no PCP admission privileges, and most outside admissions coming through hospitalists and bed management, 75% of hospital admissions are now through the ER. Twenty percent of admissions are through transfers from another hospital. Many hospitalist structures require PCP-recommended admissions to come through the ER. The result of turning ERs into the admissions structure is boarding.
According to ACEP, boarding times are up, though data on all of 2023 is hard to come by. Seniors, in particular, are ending up stuck in ER as admissions.

ACEP - A Sobering Year for Emergency Departments and Their Patients
Hospitals are not required to report boarding times.
Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm

U.S. Implements New Nursing Home Staffing Standards Without Corresponding Funding
A two to five year phase in for increased nursing home staffing, with no increased funding for Medicare or Medicaid. Which follows the trends in regulation lately of mandates (like California’s 3% price cap) without corresponding compensation adjustment. Not covered in this CMS are related home care reimbursement, which seems stuck at pre-2020 levels.
U.S. Implements New Nursing Home Staffing Standards Without Corresponding Funding