Emergency Medicine in Canada is failing its patients, its community and the caregivers within the system. We know this. We also know that the root causes of our problems extend beyond our departments. For us to survive our entire ecosystem must change.
EM:POWER stands for Emergency Medicine: Patient care-Organizational – Workforce – Ecosystem Redesign. Challenges in Canada’s health system are all too often manifested in its emergency departments (EDs). CAEP commissioned the EM:POWER Task Force to probe the system and its many stakeholders, identify underlying problems and propose a framework for system redesign. Their work took over two years and forms the basis of this report.
Goals of the EM:POWER Report
- to propose a redesigned, integrated framework for emergency care in which form follows function
- to optimize emergency care delivery within the broader healthcare system, to help achieve the Quintuple Aim.
- to catalyze change, by empowering from above (system leaders) and below (health workforce)
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Target Audience
The EM:POWER Report will be relevant to a wide range of policy/decision-makers and emergency care providers across Canada, in other healthcare systems and, of course, to our patients.
Should you have any questions, please contact Christina Bova at the CAEP office cbova@caep.ca.
Start Here
The Change Makers
SECTION1: A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO THE FUTURE OF EMERGENCY CARE
Chapter 1 : Introduction to EM:POWER
Chapter 2: What Have Emergency Departments Become and What Should They Be?
SECTION 2: ONE SYSTEM, WITH MANY ACCESS POINTS
SECTION THREE:
Access Block and Accountability Failure
SECTION FOUR:
Disaster Preparedness
SECTION FIVE: Adapting and Evolving in a Changing World
NEXT STEPS
CONSOLIDATED CHAPTER RECOMMENDATIONS
APPENDICES
