Canada’s first Accountable Care Unit
This Canadian news article (video) discusses some of the improvements seen on Canada’s first Accountable Care Unit (ACU® care model) with Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (SIBR® rounds). With the successes seen, even at this early stage, the journalist goes on to highlight that future spread of the ACU care model is highly likely within the Province.
The 1Unit team love the smiles on the faces of the staff, patient and family in this video. We also love the comments from the doctors, nurses and families about the different benefits that they feel are happening.
This video is available at: Global News Canada (originally available May 12, 2016).
Great work from the team at Canada’s first Accountable Care Unit.
Follow up
The ACU care model has now been successfully implemented in other Saskatchewan hospitals, with several more in the process of planning implementation.
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ACU briefing video
ACU briefing video from Dr Jason Stein to Australian and New Zealand healthcare leaders about the ACU care model. 40-minute video.
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.
SIBR Pocket Card MOBILE
ACU care model on ACE unit improves communication and patient care quality
Findings provide evidence that the ACU structure and SIBR process have a dual benefit of improved job satisfaction and patient quality of care.
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
Journal of Hospital Medicine ACU article
Verdi 5 North pilot project brings the entire care team to the bedside
Every day, physicians and staff on the Verdi 5 North General Medicine unit participate with their patients in Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds as part of their Accountable Care Unit.
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UHC Case Study
The University Health Consortium’s case study on ACU success at Emory Healthcare.
