November 1, 2016
Programs and activities we want to see in place in the next three years as a result of our actions include:
Member Focus
Improved Membership Engagement
- Improve awareness and engagement of the membership
- Increased ED MD/DO membership rate in WA-ACEP
- Highlight member success/recognition
- Live streaming of board meetings
- Communication – “This is WA ACEP”
- 20 sponsored ED visits in 2017
- Regional Listening sessions
- Powerpoint presentation for ED visits
- Board visits to all EDs
- Improve membership
Leadership Development
- Better succession planning / recruiting future board members
- Robust mentorship program – pipeline for engagement
- Leader development / resident student outreach
- Further develop leadership / mentor
- Promote diversity and inclusion
- Residency outreach program
- Expanding Young Physicians Section
Promoting Wellness
- Robust wellness program – personal / professional – promotes values
- Quadruple AIM implementation
- Workplace wellness
- Wellness toolkit
Advocacy Focus
Coordinated Advocacy Plus Alliances
- Robust advocacy: Fair Coverage, Opioids, Boarding, Psych
- Provider liability protection for disasters
- Legislators turn automatically to WA-ACEP for input on issues relating to healthcare
- Get to know legislators – especially your own
- Improved partner relations
- State-wide 911 legislative network
- Alliance with WSMA
- Alliance with WSHA
- Keep a lobbyist
- Increase PAC $
Fair Coverage / Compensation
- Modeling for value based compensation – reimbursement / APM Collaboratives
- Surprise billing resolution
- Solve balance billing
Chapter Focus
Educational Excellence
- Summit to Sound– recognized as best chapter meeting, attract a national audience
- Alternative educational programs
- Local lectures / ultrasound
Ensuring Chapter Financial Health
- Revenue making gala
- Increase non-dues revenue
Systems Focus
Optimizing Systems of Care
- State level venue – improve TOC from ED and Hospital via: 1) legislation, 2) right-size all resources
- Robust telehealth legislation and implementation
- Improved urgent care relationship
- Improve SNF DISPO linkage
- Bed and resource sharing
- Defining urgent care
- Solve opiates now
Optimizing Behavioral Health
- Behavioral health care solutions fix “boarding” support mental health IDNs/ capacity
- Elimination of psychiatric patient boarding
- Expand mental health resources
- Improve psych care