The Ambulatory Care Excellence (ACE) Model redesigns ambulatory cancer care by improving efficiency, care coordination, and patient outcomes through standardized roles, optimized workflows, and data-driven resource allocation. This innovative approach ensures top-of-license work for clinicians and improved continuity of care for patients.
Fox Chase Cancer Center earned a 2025 ACCC Innovator Award for its Ambulatory Care Excellence Model, which improved efficiency, coordination, and patient outcomes in ambulatory cancer care while ensuring top-of-license scope of work for clinicians.
In this episode, CANCER BUZZ speaks with Anna Liza Rodriguez, MSN, MHA, RN, OCN, NEA-BC, chief nursing officer and vice president of Nursing and Patient Care Services at Fox Chase Cancer Center about her program’s receipt of a 2025 ACCC Innovator Award. Fox Chase Cancer Center’s innovation, Ambulatory Care Excellence (ACE): Charting a New Path in Ambulatory Care Model and Coordination, is a structured approach designed to improve efficiency, coordination, and patient outcomes in ambulatory cancer care while ensuring top of license scope of work for clinicians. Rodriguez will discuss key features of the ACE Model, its impact on patients with cancer, and notable results of the initiative.
Ambulatory care is complex and fragmented, involving multiple patient events and transitions between sites. To address growing gaps in care coordination and workflow inefficiencies, Fox Chase Cancer Center developed the Ambulatory Care Excellence Model.