1Unit

What 1Unit does

1Unit is a private Atlanta-based healthcare improvement firm that partners with hospitals worldwide to implement two evidence-based care delivery programs: SIBR® Rounds (Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds) and Nurses First™ (Structured Bedside Shift Report and Change of Shift Huddle). The company originated from a Performance Improvement project at Emory University Hospital in 2010 where clinicians developed and validated a six-step communication protocol designed to bring hospitalists, bedside nurses, pharmacists, and care managers to the patient's bedside with role clarity and a shared mental model. The methodology is backed by 15+ peer-reviewed journal articles and has produced quantified outcomes at customer sites including 15-19% reductions in length of stay, 30% fewer 30-day readmissions, 82% fewer patient falls, 42% lower mortality, and 99th-percentile HCAHPS communication scores at named customers such as HCA Healthcare, Northwell Health, Yale-New Haven, BayCare, Emory, Loma Linda, and Westmead Hospital in Australia.

The business model is professional services-led: 1Unit deploys clinical experts (physicians, nurses, and human factors engineers) who embed with hospital frontline teams to customize, train, and hardwire the SIBR and Nurses First processes, with multi-year implementation contracts and quote-based pricing. Supporting assets include registered trademarks (SIBR®, Nurses First™, ACU®), a purpose-built daily rounds performance monitoring system, a hospital-facing portal hosted at riberry.health/1unit, and a content marketing footprint (blog, peer-reviewed publications, webinars, SHM conference presence) used for top-of-funnel demand generation. Distribution is entirely direct sales targeting hospital C-suite, CNOs, hospitalists, and quality improvement leaders, with APAC operations led by a dedicated regional director serving Australia and the Pacific.

Name

1Unit

Legal name

1Unit

Website

https://1unit.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

1Unit partners with hospitals worldwide to implement evidence-based SIBR bedside rounds and Nurses First shift-handoff programs, targeting reduced length of stay, readmissions, and adverse events for acute care clinical leadership.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Atlanta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Implementation Services: 1Unit provides implementation services to hospitals, working with frontline staff to deploy SIBR Rounds and Nurses First programs. The company states 'We implement, you get the glory.' This is a professional services engagement model where 1Unit experts embed with hospital teams to customize, train, and hardwire the programs.
2. Literature Review Downloads: Free SIBR rounds summary literature review available for download, suggesting potential lead generation for implementation services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

1Unit partners with hospitals to implement two evidence-based programs: SIBR Rounds® (Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds) and Nurses First™ (Structured Bedside Shift Report). The company provides implementation support, training, tools, and assessment frameworks to hardwire standardized interdisciplinary communication protocols into hospital clinical operations, delivering shorter hospital stays, fewer readmissions, and improved patient outcomes.

Product overview

1Unit is a hospital improvement company that offers two core implementation programs: SIBR Rounds® (Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds) and Nurses First™ (Structured Bedside Shift Report and Change of Shift Huddle). Both are evidence-based implementation programs that partner with hospitals to deliver better clinical operations through standardized teamwork processes. SIBR focuses on interdisciplinary bedside rounds with physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and care managers, while Nurses First focuses on nursing handoff and shift communication. The company provides implementation support, training, tools, and assessment frameworks for hospitals to hardwire these processes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SIBR Rounds® Implementation Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds — an award-winning, evidence-based implementation program that brings the hospitalist, bedside nurse, care manager, and pharmacist to the patient's bedside to create mutually supported plans of care and discharge. Uses a 6-step communication protocol to create a shared mental model of who says what, when, and in what sequence. Delivered to acute care hospitals as a multi-year implementation engagement.
• Nurses First™ Implementation Structured Bedside Shift Report and Change of Shift Huddle program that nurses prefer, hardwired through field-tested tools and training. Elevates shift report from a task to an elite competency with specific skills to learn, practice, and verify, including a streamlined ISBAR outline with review of systems. Includes 9 High-Performance Behaviors for Bedside Handover. Delivered to hospital nursing units as an implementation engagement.

Quantifiable outcome

• 15-19% reduction in hospital length of stay
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Studer Group (Huron): Studer Group, now part of Huron Consulting, partners with hospitals on evidence-based leadership and clinical operations improvement. It is the closest direct peer — selling implementation services to CNOs and hospital leadership to drive outcomes like HCAHPS, staff engagement, and quality — exactly 1Unit's buyer and motion.
• Press Ganey: Press Ganey is the dominant patient experience measurement and improvement firm in US hospitals, with deep HCAHPS benchmarking and improvement services. It overlaps directly with 1Unit's patient-communication and HCAHPS outcomes and sells to the same CNO/quality buyer.
• The Chartis Group: Chartis is a healthcare consulting firm advising hospitals and health systems on strategy, operations, and clinical transformation. Its clinical operations practice addresses similar problems to 1Unit (care delivery redesign, performance improvement) for similar enterprise customers.
• The Greeley Company: Greeley is a niche healthcare consulting firm working with hospitals on medical staff structure, peer review, and clinical quality — overlapping with 1Unit's quality and peer-review-adjacent work and selling to similar hospital leadership.

Broad incumbents

• Vizient: Vizient is a large hospital performance improvement company offering analytics, consulting, and purchased services to member health systems. It is broader than 1Unit but competes for the same hospital quality and operational improvement budget.
• Premier Inc. Premier is a large healthcare performance improvement company serving thousands of US hospitals with analytics, supply chain, and consulting. It is a broader incumbent that addresses adjacent operational improvement problems for the same hospital buyers.

Emerging players

• LeanTaaS: LeanTaaS sells AI-based hospital operations software (OR scheduling, infusion centers, inpatient capacity) to improve throughput and reduce LOS. Different technology stack but same buyer and overlapping problem space (hospital efficiency, LOS reduction).
• Qventus: Qventus applies AI to hospital operations (length of stay, discharge planning, ED throughput) — selling software to the same CNO/operations buyer as 1Unit. Different delivery mechanism (software vs. implementation services) but directly competing for hospital LOS and discharge-improvement budget.
• Hospital IQ: Hospital IQ provides AI-driven hospital operations platforms focused on staffing, patient flow, and discharge planning. It addresses overlapping problems (throughput, LOS) for similar hospital customers, representing a potential software-led substitute for parts of 1Unit's offering.

Others

• Nordic Consulting: Nordic is a large healthcare IT consulting firm that helps hospitals implement and optimize clinical systems. It is adjacent rather than directly competing — but its EHR implementation work can substitute for 1Unit-style change management on related hospital transformation projects.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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