Acute Care for Elders (ACE) as a Geriatrics Safety and Quality Improvement Program

Developed by the Clinical Practice & Models of Care Committee & the Acute Hospital Care Special Interest Group.
Moderator: Michael L. Malone, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
This session will describe the ACE model, followed by a description of how ACE principles can be integrated into a real-time quality improvement checklist (ACE Tracker). A description of a successful ACE consult service will be followed by a description of an innovative, hospital-wide, delirium prevention protocol. Each presentation will be followed by expert "Critique and Take Home Points".

An Overview of the ACE Unit Model
S. Liliana Oakes, MD, CMD, Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

A Real-time, Quality Improvement Checklist: The ACE Tracker
Michael L. Malone, MD

The ACE Consult Service
Ella H. Bowman, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Medical Director, Wishard Hospital Acute Care for Elders

A Hospital-wide Delirium Prevention Protocol
Kyle R. Allen, DO, AGSF, Medical Director, Geriatric Medicine and Division of Life Long Health Riverside Health System

Critique and Take Home Points
Albert L. Siu, MD, MSPH, Professor and Chairman, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Elizabeth Capezuti, PhD, RN, Dr. John W. Rowe Professor in Successful Aging, New York University College of Nursing