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Instead of being hospitalized in a hospital, home hospitalization offers care in your safest place. Leumit offers its clients an alternative to hospital admission: home hospitalization, which provides enhanced medical care in the patient’s home.
The purpose of home hospitalization is to enable patients to receive comprehensive, high-quality care at a hospital-level standard, while remaining in the comfort of their home. Home hospitalization serves as an alternative to inpatient hospital care for patients who require close monitoring and intensified treatment.
Home hospitalization reduces exposure to secondary infections and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, prevents the difficulties associated with sleeping and being hospitalized away from home, significantly reduces cognitive and functional decline in older adults caused by environmental changes, and helps ease the burden and pressure on hospitals.
Home hospitalization ensures close medical supervision tailored to the patient’s individual needs and delivered in a supportive home environment.
The service is provided at no additional cost to the patient.
The unit includes a multidisciplinary medical team consisting of a physician, nurse, social worker, physiotherapist, speech therapist, and occupational therapist, who provide paramedical services in the patient’s home. The team delivers consistent and intensive care at home, according to the required medical needs.
Home hospitalization includes close medical follow-up at home. During the hospitalization period, a physician and a nurse visit the patient daily to examine and monitor their medical condition. Home visits are provided every day of the week, including weekends and holidays, and more than once a day if needed.
When necessary, the medical team will arrange remote monitoring tools for continuous follow-up of the patient’s health.
Home hospitalization is particularly suitable for older adults, pregnant women, and patients who are medically stable in terms of breathing, blood pressure, and other vital parameters. However, not every case is suitable for home hospitalization. The decision is made based on a physician’s recommendation and according to medical limitations, as well as the level of support and assistance available to the patient at home.
Currently, eligibility for home hospitalization is limited to adults aged 18 and over who are suffering from one of the following conditions:
Approval for home hospitalization is conditional on social and family circumstances that allow for continuous and close support, including the presence of a primary caregiver who can communicate with the medical team and operate required equipment, and the ability to create appropriate physical conditions in the home.
Home hospitalization requires written informed consent from the patient or their legal guardian.
Patients with acute illness, patients whose condition has not yet been diagnosed, patients who did not respond to prior medical treatment, or patients with a significant risk of clinical deterioration will not be accepted for home hospitalization.
If you are referred to the emergency department or for hospitalization, you may contact your family physician, the customer relations manager at the medical center where you are treated, or your treating nurse, and ask about the possibility of home hospitalization.
The Home Care Unit is available daily between 08:00–14:00. You can contact the unit through Leumit medical centers or via the customer service call center at 1-700-507-507 or *507 from a mobile phone.
If assistance is required after 14:00, please contact the same customer service call center.
