Our Accountable Care UnitTM (ACU) provides an innovative design in patient care and resident education. Located on a single geographic unit, the ACU provides a home for our residents where they become leaders of inter-professional teams and conduct daily bedside rounds. The patient care on this unit represents the best of collaboration in our hospital.
Learn more about a day in the life of the ACU in our video:
Our residents are proud of these excellent patient outcomes on the ACU:
ACU-Call Day | ACU Non-call Day | |
---|---|---|
6:45AM | Accept night float admissions | Sign out/pre-round |
8:00AM | Morning report | Morning report |
8:50AM | Pre-rounds/notes/work | Table rounds/teaching |
9:45AM | Table rounds/teaching | Bedside rounds |
10:45AM | Bedside rounds | Notes/work |
12:15PM | Noon conference | Noon conference |
1:00PM | Admit/work/teaching | Work/teaching |
4:30PM | Sign out to call team/end of day | |
7-10PM | Finish notes/work/sign out to night float resident |
*ACU is a trademark administered and controlled by Centripital, Inc.
“When I interviewed at Providence St Vincent, I really liked the
camaraderie I saw between physicians, nursing, and other ancillary staff.
After matching here and being a team member in the ACU, I am even more
of a fan! The SIBR rounding provides a consistent, efficient, and effective
way to ensure that the whole team (including the patient and family!)
is communicating clearly about the patient’s plan of care. I find
that this ensures that I don’t miss important observations from
the bedside nurse, and that my patients truly understand what we’re
doing for them.”
Annette Whitney M.D., Resident Graduate
“As an attending on ACU, I love the constant opportunities for teaching
in our one-attending, one-team model in one geographic unit. Multidisciplinary
table-top rounds allow us to prioritize the work for the day and quickly
identify the most important teaching points for each patient. In all the
other hospital teaching I've done, I've never seen residents work so closely
side-by-side with each nurse, case manager and pharmacist to comprehensively
care for patients.”
Irene Hendrickson, M.D., Faculty Instructor
“I love getting to know the Interns and watching them grow into such
confident physicians; it truly becomes more like family when you get to
know each other, and this makes for much better communication.”
Patty Miller, Nurse
“I’m especially grateful for the compassionate, professional,
collaborative and complete care. The experience renewed my faith in the
medical profession. Doctors and nurses were all wonderful.”
Patient