--- title: "Invest in Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) | Sutter Health" description: "Your gift improves care for older adults in the hospital. Give to Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) program at CPMC Mission Bernal." url: "https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/elder-care/acute-care-for-the-elderly-ace" --- 1. [Home](https://www.sutterhealth.org/) / 2. [Giving](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving) / 3. [Giving opportunities](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities) / 4. [Elder care](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/elder-care) / 5. Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) # Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE)  **Section menu** - [Elder care](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/elder-care "Elder care") - [Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE)](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/elder-care/acute-care-for-the-elderly-ace "Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE)") - [Grove](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/elder-care/grove "Grove") - [Thrift stores](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/elder-care/thrift-stores "Thrift stores") - [Elder care](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/elder-care "Elder care") - [Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE)](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/elder-care/acute-care-for-the-elderly-ace "Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE)") - [Grove](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/elder-care/grove "Grove") - [Thrift stores](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/elder-care/thrift-stores "Thrift stores") CPMC’s Mission Bernal Campus offers Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE). The ACE unit is a novel model of care delivered by an interdisciplinary team to hospitalized older adults to improve patient outcomes. Seniors in an inpatient setting are often at their most vulnerable and require a different model of care than the general population. ACE unit personnel are trained to take care of patients who are unable to communicate their needs. They review medications to minimize side-effects or prescription conflicts, and they identify and treat acute delirium—a symptom present in over 30% of all hospitalized patients over 65. CPMC’s ACE unit has lifts in every room to help patients get out of bed, special non-slip floors, railings in all the hallways, and common areas where patients can socialize or have group meals. The Emergency Department (ED) at Mission Bernal contains two Geriatric Emergency Rooms, staffed by specially trained geriatric experts. Screenings for symptoms that primarily affect seniors, such as dementia, are offered. > Older patients often need more specialized care when in the hospital. Mission Bernal Campus’s new Acute Care for the Elderly unit builds on our years of success caring for these patients, shortening the amount of time they need to stay in the hospital while improving outcomes.  > > — Wendy Zachary, M.D., Medical Director, Acute Care for the Elderly ## **Philanthropy powers our innovation** Specialized hospital care for older people is highlighted in the story of the Rad family—husband and wife participants in the ACE program (Acute Care for the Elderly) at the Sutter Health CPMC Mission Bernal Campus in San Francisco. ## Give to CPMC Foundation Invest in Acute Care for the Elderly. 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RADD: The marriage is 50--\nMRS. RADD: We are very sorry.\nMR. RADD: 54 years old of the marriage.\nSINGER: (SINGING) I want you to go with me everywhere I go.\nDo everything I do.\nThat's how much I love you.\n\nWENDY ZACHARY: Hi there.\n[INTERPOSING VOICES]\nWENDY ZACHARY: In the acute care of the elderly\nthere is a dedicated multipurpose room,\nto help promote mobilization.\nMRS. RADD: Yeah!\nWENDY ZACHARY: I do art therapy with them, music therapy.\nMRS. RADD: God love me because I have this kind of doctor.\nShe's wonderful.\nAlways put the hand into my hand, and make me so feel good.\nHonest, any time I go to hospital,\nI don't want to back to home, because I have\na wonderful time over there.\nWENDY ZACHARY: That's so nice.\nThe benefits to the ACE Unit for our patients are multifold.\nWe're talking about a lower length of stay,\nlower rate of readmission, lower rate of infection.\nMRS. RADD: 10 years ago every two week I go to emergency.\nLittle by little everything is changed.\nI am now strong and healthy.\nMR. RADD: I feel a lot younger.\n\nWENDY ZACHARY: We have a very good opportunity here,\nas we show what is inevitable, and that is\nthat the ACE Unit is good care.\nIt would be my dream to have a ACE Unit in every hospital\nin the country."} ```