b'a Collaborative Care Model, an HB 494 PN 463RepresentativeNotable Datesintegrated care model that can deliverJeanne McNeill (D, Lehigh)This timely psychiatric care in the primarylegislation requires child care facilitiesApril 24: General Assemblycare setting.PACEP supports thewith possible sources of carbonreturns to session Collaborative Care Model.monoxide to have carbon monoxideMay 4: Legislative Reception at Bill Information - Senate Bill 445;alarms.HB 494 was reported from theScientific AssemblyRegular Session 2023-2024 - PAHouse Health Committee on MarchJune 30: Budget adoptionGeneral Assembly (state.pa.us)29.PACEP supports HB 949. deadline PACEP PEDIATRICS INTEREST GROUPAdvocating for Our Youngest Patients: New Policy Statements PublishedIts 10pm on a Monday night, andAccess to Critical Health InformationClick the links below for the full youre deep in the weeds in the EDfor Children During Emergencies:publications.with multiple patients boarding andEmergency Information Forms andAccess to Critical Health Information a waiting room thats bursting atBeyond describes the importancefor Children During Emergencies: the seams. Your next patient is JT, anof the EIF, or Emergency InformationEmergency Information Forms and 18-month-old male with a metabolicForm, and its elements, and makesBeyond disorder who is presenting withrecommendations for increasing respiratory distress. Even if your ED isavailability of EIFs in the prehospital,Crowding in the Emergency 100% pediatric ready and you are veryED, and hospital settings. Crowding inDepartment: Challenges and comfortable with his management,the Emergency Department: ChallengesRecommendations for the Care of caring for him presents multipleand Recommendations for the CareChildrenchallenges. Does this child have anof Children and its accompanying emergency sick plan? Do the parentsTechnical Report address the effectsTechnical Report: Crowding in the have a copy with them? If the regionalED overcrowding has on our youngestEmergency Department: Challenges childrens hospital is full, will you andpatients. Strategies for multipleand Recommendations for the Care your team be able to care for him untilstakeholders, including pediatricof Childrena bed becomes available?providers (in the primary care and ED settings), healthcare system leaders,Interested in participating in theThe American Academy of Pediatricshealthcare finance planners, andPACEP pediatric interest group? Email recently published two Policypolicymakers, are provided.Jan Reisinger at exec@pacep.net.Statements and a Technical Report making recommendations to improve emergency care of patients such as JT. PACEP News | Spring 2023 9'