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Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Unit
ACE Manual The ACE Manual: Meeting the Challenge of Providing Quality and Cost-Effective Hospital Care to Older Adults provides a "how-to" approach for planning and developing an ACE unit in a community hospital setting. Based on the experiences of establishing Summa's Acute Care for Elders (ACE) unit at Summa Health System, a 963-bed health care system located in Akron, Ohio, the manual leads the reader through the process of setting up an ACE unit -from start-up to maturity and beyond. Topics covered include the rationale for such units, how to identify key stakeholders and win administrative support, how to organize and develop an interdisciplinary team, and the ABCs of implementation.
Contents
- Introduction
- Background
- Summa Health System and Akron City Hospital
- Geriatric Services at Summa Health System
- Local Issues in Geriatric Care
- Rationale
- Conceptual Basis for Establishing an ACE Unit
- The Dysfunctional Syndrome
- The Prehab Program of ACE
- Outcomes of the University Hospitals of Cleveland ACE Unit
- The ABCs of ACE Unit Implementation
- Agree
- Build
- Commence
- Document
- Evaluate
- Feedback
- Conclusion/Annotated Bibliography Appendices
- Program Development Materials
- Clinical Tools
Authors of this 134-page manual, on compact disc, include:
- Steven R. Counsell, M.D.
- Carolyn Holder, MSN, R.N., C.S.
- Laura L. Liebenauer, M.A.
- Kyle R. Allen, D.O.
- Robert M. Palmer, M.D., MPH
- Denise Kresevic, R.N., Ph.D.
- C. Seth Landefeld, M.D.
To order the ACE Manual, please complete the ACE Manual Order Form and mail it with your check or money order, to:
Geriatrics Program - ACE Manual
Summa Health System
75 Arch Street, Suite 301
Akron, OH 44304
Cost: $100 including shipping & handling. Ohio orders add $6.75 sales tax per CD for a total $106.75.
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