Today, it represents a major public health challenge due, in particular, to the aging of the population and the significant increase in chronic diseases, pathologies requiring long-term treatment.
Home health is now popular with more than 80% of French patients suffering from chronic illnesses, such as sleep apnea or even diabetes, diseases not linked to age, which can affect infants as well as children. elderly people.
Beyond the legitimate desire of patients who wish to be followed at home and near their loved ones, there is also a strong desire on the part of public authorities to promote the shift to homes in order to free up hospital beds, thus making it possible to free up significant budgetary savings.
Indeed, it has been shown that treating a patient at home is much less expensive for the public authorities than treating them in a health establishment.
The central place of PSAD in the development of home health
Home Health Providers (PSAD) play a central role in supporting this national policy in that they deliver, only on medical prescription, a device (medical bed, wheelchair, respiratory device, infusion or infusion devices). fight against diabetes…) directly to the patient’s home.
They thus intervene particularly in 4 essential areas: diabetes, home care, nutrition and perfusion, as well as respiratory pathologies.
The Home Health Provider: much more than just an equipment delivery person
But the PSAD is far from being a simple deliverer of medical equipment.
The basis of its profession is above all to support and train the patient in the proper use of medical equipment, a role that is all the more important with devices that are increasingly connected and digitized.
Their presence during the installation of the equipment helps to alleviate the concerns of the patient and their loved ones, and to reassure them about the use they will make of it for their treatment.
Very often a few days after installation, the PSAD returns to the patient’s home to ensure that the patient is satisfied, that they are not experiencing any discomfort and that they are using it correctly and in accordance with medical prescriptions.
The provider thus remains constantly attentive to the patient and his family, throughout the pathology, in order to monitor the smooth progress of the treatment and, possibly, change or repair the device.
There are also on-call duties 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to listen to patients and, if necessary, replace these medical devices if they fail.
The Home Health Provider: an actor linked to doctors and HAD structures
This support is always provided in conjunction with the prescriber because the patient’s medical device is very often connected and therefore can be consulted by the doctor.
He can thus ensure, in real time, that the patient is following his treatment, which also allows him to save medical time when he receives him for an appointment.
If the PSAD must be distinguished from a HAD (Home Hospitalization) structure in that the latter is specialized in care, and the provider more in the knowledge of the medical device, these two structures also work in total complementarity in the service of the patient at home.
With its 2,500 companies and associations, spread across the entire national territory and its 35,000 employees (including many health professionals) who can work on weekends or at night in sensitive, rural, mountainous areas, etc., the provision of Home health therefore has a major role in supporting patients in their homes…especially since they could constitute a real response to the problem of medical deserts.
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