Unconditional Care in Academic Emergency Departments

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Jeffrey A. Kline, Indiana University; John H. Burton, Virginia Tech; Christopher R. Carpenter, Washington University; Zachary F. Meisel, University of Pennsylvania; James R. Miner, Hennepin Healthcare System; Craig D. Newgard, Oregon Health and Science University; Tammie Quest, Emory University; Ian B. K. Martin, Medical College of Wisconsin; James F. Holmes, University of California Davis; Amy H. Kaji, University of California Los Angeles; Steven B. Bird, University of Massachusetts; Wendy C. Coates, University of California Los Angeles; Michelle Lall, Emory University; Angela M. Mills, Columbia University; Megan L. Ranney, Brown University; Richard E. Wolfe, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Stephen C. Dorner, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Language: English
• Date: 2020-06-01
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication Version: Author Accepted Manuscript (After Peer Review)
• Copyright Statement: © 2020 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acem.14010
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Academic Emergency Medicine
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 6
• Start Page: 527
• End Page: 528
• Grant/Funding Information: None declared
• Keywords: Emergency Medicine; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Science & Technology
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Epidemiology; Health Sciences, Health Care Management; Health Sciences, Public Health

Abstract

Recent news stories have explicitly stated that patients with symptoms of COVID‐19 were “turned away” from emergency departments. This commentary addresses these serious allegations, with an attempt to provide the perspective of academic emergency departments (EDs) around the Nation. The overarching point we wish to make is that academic EDs never deny emergency care to any person.