• As the manager of a community hospital's Emergency Department, we have been tasked with developing a policy to prevent patients from receiving ED services for non-emergent conditions. We have to prepare a policy draft to be reviewed by the hospital's leadership team. This team includes legal counsel, physicians and registered nurses, as well as chief operating, financial, and executive officers. Your wording should be professional, and consistent with an organization's policy (do not include statements that indicate opinion, personal views, or observations).
• We have to summarize the issue of overcrowding in emergency departments (patients seeking care for both emergent and non-emergent conditions) in the opening.
• for the second paragraph, we have to summarize EMTALA and the hospital's obligation to comply with it.
• We need to write a policy to include the following situations:
  • Guidelines for administrative staff who will be registering and triaging patients.
  • Guidelines for clinical staff (physicians, nurses, paramedics, etc.) who will be triaging and 
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