Hospital System ACU Visioning Session
Provincial ACU visioning session for the leadership team and stakeholders facilitated by 1Unit following a 2-year pilot of ACUs on 4 units in 2 hospitals
ACU care model is a disruptive innovation & radical transformation of care delivery
Moving toward fully integrated, patient-centered care on inpatient hospital units requires radically transforming current unit and hospital structures and processes. One promising new care model, the Accountable Care Unit (ACU), offers alternative structures and processes. One process, Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (SIBR) puts patients at the center of care, bringing the interprofessional care team to patients’ bedsides every day.
Canadian Intermediate Care Unit in an Accountable Care Unit Framework
Creation of a Canadian Intermediate Care Unit in an Accountable Care Unit Framework: First Year Outcomes A focused look at a recent award-winning submission to the Canadian Society of Hospital […]
Results from Canada’s First Accountable Care Unit
RESULTS FROM CANADA’S FIRST ACCOUNTABLE CARE UNIT A focused look at a recent submission to the Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine’s annual conference 2017. The submission is made available here […]
Coordinated care through Accountable Care Units
Coordinated care through the ACU® care model Saskatchewan, Canada, has been driving the growth of the Accountable Care Unit care model locally for the last 3 years. This growth has […]
Journal of Hospital Medicine ACU article
JHM ACU article The first peer-reviewed journal article describing the Accountable Care Unit care model (ACU® care model) and Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (SIBR® rounds). Hospitals have not been optimized […]
Post-Acute Care Program
1Unit PAC helps post-acute care facilities to implement PAC ACUs and PAC SIBR rounds to improve clinical & cost outcomes, and patient care & teamwork
Harvard Business Review ACU article
HBR ACU article describing the Accountable Care Unit care model features and Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (SIBR rounds)
Nursing on an ACU
1Unit’s Canadian work has been very rewarding. In this post, we hear about a patient experience & some staff thoughts and comments about nursing on an ACU
Post-Acute Care SIBR rounds wins award
1Unit has extended our expertise in high-quality patient centered care to the post acute setting with ‘post-acute care SIBR rounds’ (Pac SIBR)