Advocacy

AAEM believes every individual should have unencumbered access to quality emergency care provided by a specialist in emergency medicine. To ensure that this occurs, you have to make your voices heard. The involvement of our members is vital to the success of our grassroots efforts. We encourage all AAEM members to use the information provided here and on the Legislative Action Center to take an active role in molding the policy issues facing emergency medicine today. For further information on AAEM's government relations activities and positions contact aaemgov@aol.com.

E-Mail Alerts
E-Mail Alerts provide strategic information to all those who wish to affect key policy issues of interest to AAEM and emergency medicine. If you would like to receive future alerts, you must sign up on the homepage of AAEM’s Legislative Action Center.

EMTALA Information
Articles and up-to-date information on EMTALA can be found here.

Legislative Action Center
AAEM’s Legislative Action Center is "one-stop" shopping for federal legislative and regulatory information. It contains information on the important policy issues that AAEM is tracking for you. You can search congressional databases by name, state, committee, or leadership, and send messages to your legislators directly from the site. The ActionCenter, accessible through the "Advocacy” section of the AAEM website, also includes such features as:

• "Sponsor Track" attaches information on relevant bill sponsorship on Members' bio pages.
• A "Vote Scorecard" lists every member of Congress and how they voted on bills of interest to AAEM.
• "Congress Today" provides daily schedules of House and Senate activity including committee hearing schedules.
• "Megavote" provides you with a weekly e-mail on the voting patterns of your representative and senators.
• Detailed "Campaign Contribution Data."
• "Tell a Friend" enables users to send alerts, votes, and other legislative-related information to one or morecolleagues.

In addition to the above, the Action Center contains a searchable "Guide on National and Local Media" – newspapers, magazines, and TV networks and stations. Users can send e-mails, faxes or printed letters tonewspaper journalists, radio talk show hosts, and television commentators.

Public Policy Statements/Letters
Click here for AAEM letters and statements aimed at federal decision makers on issues of concern to emergency medicine.

Washington Sentinel
The Washington Sentinel is AAEM's monthly newsletter on legislative and regulatory issues of concern to its members. You can receive the Washington Sentinel as a downloadable PDF by sending an e-mail note to aaemgov@aol.com. It can also be viewed online.