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Acute Care for Elders (ACE) units reduce hospital‐associated delirium, functional decline, and lengths of stay. However, establishing and sustaining such units have proven difficult. There are only 43 ACE units among the >3500 hospitals in the United States. This study describes an iterative quality improvement process, which allowed us to establish and sustain an ACE unit care model in a modern academic hospital. This continuous process was centered on implementing the key principles of the ACE unit model of care: patient‐centered care assessments, medical care review, specialized prepared environment, early mobilization, physical therapy, and early planning for discharge to home. Quality of care and patient outcomes data for older adults admitted to our ACE unit includes mortality index (observed/expected) consistently <1 (FY22 = 0.86), 30‐day readmission rate of <10% (FY22 9.31%), and length of stay index of ~1 (FY22 1.07). We describe how work on our ACE unit has led to hospital‐wide initiatives, including dementia‐friendly hospital certification. Our hope is that others can use this process to enhance the dissemination of the ACE unit model of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a quality improvement project to reduce the complications linked with indwelling urinary catheters. It states that the development of a nurse-driven protocol would reduce the overall prevalence of indwelling urinary catheters. According to the article, future studies are needed to identify patient satisfaction and specific metrics of patient safety with the use of the nurse-driven protocol.