title: Acute unit is new model of care.
abstract: Medicinq Osborne and off-site construction specialist Yorkon last month handed over the UK's largest acute admissions unit, or AAU, to the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust. The milestone came only a year or so after the construction consortium signed the contract for a facility that it is hoped will radically improve the way patients in the area receive emergency care. Jonathan Baillie reports.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baillie
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000379:methods*; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010343:Patient Admission; D013222:State Medicine