Originally published by our sister publication, Pain Medicine News.
Last year, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) conferred its first Pain and Addiction Care in the Emergency Department (PACED) accreditation to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, in Paterson, N.J. It was a major step toward ACEP’s goal of improving pain management while minimizing opioid therapy and consequently the risk for addiction.
PACED accreditation establishes benchmarks of care that raise