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What Is Hospital Avoidance?
The Home Support Services (HSS) Hospital Avoidance program has been developed with the fundamental goal of reducing the nights each patient spends in an acute hospital setting. This includes avoiding a hospital admission altogether or enabling patients to leave hospital earlier than would otherwise be possible through thorough case management and the rapid delivery of appropriate services within the patients home.
Benefits
- Allowing patients to be cared for in the comfort of their own home or residential facility
- Reducing the pressure on both Public and Private Hospital infrastructure
- Reducing costs associated with unnecessary Hospital admissions
Why Do We Need Hospital Avoidance Programs?
The health systems across Australia are continuing to face significant pressures and the demand for health services is increasing above sustainable rates.
- There are many factors contributing to the pressures upon the health system including:
- Increased population growth
- Ageing population / workforce
- Increased prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease
- Growing community expectations regarding access to health care
- Requirements for emerging technological improvements to hospital infrastructure
- Heightened costs of health care provision and delivery
To meet the increased demand for health services, governments, insurance companies and hospitals across Australia are looking to implement initiatives that shift the focus of health care delivery to chronic disease prevention and early intervention as well as rapid response community care, to better manage the health needs of the local community.
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Why Use HSS Hospital Avoidance Program?
- Seamless integration of services
- Flexibility in service delivery
- Rapid responses to delivery of care
- 24 / 7 service
- Enhance and monitor patient outcomes
- Efficient and effective care.
HSS has a well established 24 hour capability, seven days a week based in South Australia, Queensland and Northern NSW, with rapid response teams of both nursing and allied health professionals. Our systems are designed to quickly deploy the specific services, products and equipment required to safely maintain and treat each patient in their place of residence with dignity and respect for individual choice. We understand that speed of response is essential to avoiding hospital admissions and enabling discharges from hospital to home.
We provide services that range from respite and support of Activities of Daily Living through to complex intravenous therapy, wound care, and rehabilitation services. We have a wide range of clinical specialties such as: Paediatric, Palliative / end of life care, Mental Health, Diabetes, Stomal and Maternity Care.
We deliver care related to maintaining chronic conditions to avoid hospitalisation; enabling patients who have been stabilised in the hospital to quickly return home for the continuation of their treatment and rehabilitation; and avoiding readmissions via a combination of monitoring, treatment, and patient and carer education.
We have also demonstrated our ability to respond quickly to changing needs within the various programs we work within. Most significantly we have proved our ability to respond to the urgency and critical needs of state emergencies such as heatwaves and pandemics.
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HSS' Vision
Home Support Services (HSS)’ business is built on a desire to provide the highest-possible standard of care to people in their own homes or place of residence. HSS pioneered ‘hospital care in the home’ in South Australia and for the past 21 years has worked tirelessly to allow aged and ill people to live with dignity – in the comfort of their own home.
HSS started with the clear vision that continues to form our foundation today
“To provide excellent professional health care to patients in their homes, and to optimise their health status in a way that respects and is responsive to their individual needs and values.”
HSS has strived to create a unique all encompassing service for each individual patient that is referred to one of our Hospital Avoidance programs. The HSS Case Management System underpins this service.
HSS has worked with many partners in delivering Hospital Avoidance services including Government Departments, Private Insurance Companies and Individual Hospitals. Each program requires a unique approach and understanding to ensure the particular needs of the patients within these settings are fully met and the objectives of the Health Care partner are achieved. HSS prides itself on being flexible with every partner and patient inline with our Vision.
Would You Like More Information?
If you would like any further information about the HSS Avoidance Program or how you go about obtaining a referral, please contact us on (08) 8372 4800.
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