Core Privileges:
Assess, evaluate, diagnose, and initially treat patients of all ages who present in the ED with any symptom, illness, injury, or condition. Provide immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, and disposition in response to acute illness and injury. Privileges include the performance of history and physical examinations, the ordering and interpretation of diagnostic studies, including laboratory, diagnostic imaging, and electrocardiographic examinations, and the administration of medications normally considered part of the practice of emergency medicine. Privileges do not include admitting privileges, long-term care of patient on an inpatient basis, or the performance of scheduled elective procedures. The core privileges in this specialty include the procedures on the attached procedures list and such other procedures that are extensions of the same techniques and skills. Unless otherwise indicated, Emergency Medicine privileges are applicable to all Riverview Health emergency center locations.