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ACEP Issues Statement on Emergency Physicians’ Priority Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine
December 10, 2020The American College of Emergency Physicians supports all emergency physicians and their role on the front lines of the COVID-19 response. We believe all emergency physicians and emergency department staff members should be afforded Group 1A access to the COVID vaccine as recommended by the CDC and FDA so they can safely continue the fight […]
ICEP Issues Statement on Emergency Physician Vaccination
December 8, 2020The Illinois College of Emergency Physicians (ICEP) believes that all physicians who work in a hospital or health system’s emergency department must be included in that hospital’s allotment of COVID‐19 vaccine to their health care workers, regardless of the employment model used. As hospitals have begun making plans for the distribution of their allotments of […]
Urge Your U.S. Senators to Take Action to Halt Impending Medicare Cuts
November 18, 2020Negotiations continue in Congress on how to address the impending Medicare cuts that many physicians will face in 2021. Emergency physicians will face a 6% cut unless Congress acts. Although you may have already contacted your U.S. House member on this issue, your two U.S. Senators need to hear from you now about the importance […]
Tier 3 Resurgence Mitigations to Take Effect Statewide on Friday
With a new wave of COVID-19 surging across the state of Illinois, the Midwest and the nation, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced additional COVID-19 resurgence mitigations will take effect in every region across the state in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus. Tier 3 […]
Dr. Adnan Hussain Recognized with ACEP Community Emergency Medicine Excellence Award
November 2, 2020ICEP member Adnan Hussain, MD, Medical Director of AMITA Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, was recognized by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) with the 2020 Community Emergency Medicine Excellence Award for his outstanding contributions to care in Joliet and its surrounding communities. The ACEP Community Emergency Medicine Excellence Award is presented at […]
Dr. Tarlan Hedayati Honored as ACEP’s Outstanding Speaker of the Year
October 27, 2020Tarlan Hedayati, MD, FACEP, was been honored as ACEP’s 2019-20 Outstanding Speaker of the Year. This prestigious award is designed to recognize a single faculty member who has consistently demonstrated teaching excellence through performance, versatility, and dependability during ACEP educational meetings throughout the year. Dr. Hedayati will be recognized at ACEP21 when she can be honored […]
ACEP Rebuts President Trump’s False Statements about Overcounting COVID-19 Deaths
October 26, 2020WASHINGTON, D.C.—In response to President Trump’s baseless claims about physicians miscounting deaths due to COVID-19, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) released the following statement on October 25: “On behalf of the nation’s emergency physicians, ACEP is appalled by President Trump’s reckless and false assertions that physicians are overcounting deaths related to COVID-19. Emergency […]
51 Counties At Warning Level for Coronavirus Disease
October 23, 2020The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) on October 23 reported 51 counties in Illinois are considered to be at a warning level for novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The number of counties has increased from 34 last week. A county enters a warning level when two or more COVID-19 risk indicators that measure the amount […]
Free Webinar on Xofluza and Influenza Presented by Genentech
October 19, 2020An educational program on Xofluza and influenza will be presented at two time slots on October 28. Registration is free and open to all. XOFLUZA:THE ONLY SINGLE-DOSE ORAL ANTIVIRAL FOR THE FLU Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 12:00 PM CST Register now (Search Program Number: CM40061) Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 6:00 PM CST Register […]
Public Health Officials Announce 87,000 Tests Completed, 4,554 New Cases
October 16, 2020The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported 4,554 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, the highest one-day case total, including 38 additional confirmed deaths. On September 4, 2020, IDPH reported 5,368 new cases of COVID-19 after a slowdown in data processing delayed reporting of some additional aggregate numbers. Cases not […]