What is it?
Hospital in the home (HITH) is the provision of hospital care in the person's own home or residence. Clients are regarded as hospital in-patients and remain the responsibility of the HITH department.
RALLY Healthcare provides HITH services to public and private hospital patients 24 hours per day, 7-days per week.
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In addition to generalist primary nursing services, RALLY Healthcare provides a range of technical care including IV therapy, management of infusion pumps and taking blood samples.
Nurses involved in the provision of HITH services participate in technical care education and training provided by the RDNS Helen Macpherson Smith Institute of Community Health.
Client criteria for hospital in the home programs
There are certain conditions that need to be met for clients to receive hospital in the home services (ie. for complex technical care such as intravenous therapy for antibiotics or chemotherapy, or complex would care):
- the hospital must provide 24 hour medical backup and a contact phone number, or arrange for the client's general practitioner to be available to make home visits if required
- the hospital must be prepared to re-admit clients if problems arise that cannot be managed at home
- clients need to have a 24 hour carer available, either living with them or living nearby (eg. a family member or neighbour)
- the client's home must have a telephone
- the client's home environment must be safe for the client and staff.
How you can access these services
Hospitals refer clients directly to RALLY Healthcare for HITH services. Contact us for further information.