What this is

Home hospitalisation is a care programme that makes it possible for a patient requiring hospital care to be cared for at home by hospital professionals (doctor and nurse).

For all intents and purposes, the patient is regarded as an inpatient in the hospital, which means that the hospital is responsible for the patient and must guarantee the efficiency and quality of the care provided. This means that the entire diagnostic and therapeutic infrastructure of the hospital is available to the patient, and tests are carried out as quickly as they would be for an inpatient in a conventional hospital ward.

Home hospitalisation allows patients to preserve their privacy and stay in contact with their families, who do not have to travel to the centre. It also facilitates more personalised treatment and reduces the risks associated with being admitted to a hospital.

 

This is the case for:

• Patients who are admitted to a hospital bed and who, once they present clinical improvement, are considered suitable candidates for going home if they receive visits and the necessary treatment, such as intravenous antibiotics, oxygen therapy, and so on.
• Patients who arrive at A&E and who, after being treated in the hospital, can receive hospital care at home.
• Patients from day hospitals or outpatient clinics who would need to be admitted to hospital if they were not visited and treated at home.
• Patients whose general practitioner has requested this care because they have an acute condition.

 

Requirements

In order to be admitted to hospital at home, you must have someone close by who can help out with day-to-day tasks, although they do not have to be there 24 hours a day.

We will give you information on how the unit works and telephone numbers for contacting the staff at any time of the day. If you agree, you will have to sign a document accepting the care method.

 

 

Remote medicine

If you are admitted to hospital at home, we will ask you to download the eSalut app on your mobile phone, through which we can remotely monitor your clinical evolution. This app also contains relevant information to help you understand your process. If the medical and nursing team consider it appropriate, they will provide you with devices to monitor your vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, oxygen saturation and weight).

 

At home

On the day you arrive home you will receive a telephone call from the Hospitalisation at Home nursing staff to make the first contact, confirm your arrival home, and ascertain your needs.

The first home visit will usually take place the day after you leave the hospital and, depending on your state of health, subsequent visits will be planned.

You will be visited will be between 9 am and 8 pm from Monday to Sunday. We will let you know in advance whether the visit will take place in the morning or in the afternoon.

If the home hospitalisation team feels it is appropriate, some of the visits can be carried out online.

 

Medical tests

All tests and diagnostic techniques will be carried out at home whenever possible, and should you need to be transferred to the hospital, the home hospitalisation team will coordinate the journey and the whole process.

 

Treatment and follow-up

In terms of treatment, during your home hospitalisation, you will be given the medication you need. It is very important that you follow the instructions given to you by the care team so that you progress favourably.

 

When you are discharged from home hospitalisation, your follow-up care will be coordinated through your primary care doctor and the specialist doctors who are considered necessary.