Abstract
ABSTRACT: While Magnet(R) is a commitment to excellence and thus recognition, the accountable care organization (ACO) focus is to quality and reimbursement. Each can be built on a model of shared characteristics that in the end will prove a source of success for the creation of an organization that is both an ACO and Magnet. In an effort to align strategic initiatives as synergistic processes, not competing priorities, 10 shared characteristics of Magnet organizations and ACOs are presented.