The hospitalization unit to home Torrevieja conducts more than 7,000 visits in 2012.

-40.4% of patients served by the UHD were subsidiary patients receive palliative care

-La UHD contributes to enhance the quality of life of patients with chronic pathologies, terminally ill patients or with a process complicated postsurgical

Torrevieja, 2013 February.- the unit of hospitalization at domicile (UHD) of the Department of health of Torreviejamanaged by Bank health and Asisa and integrated into the public network of the Generalitat Valenciana, he has made over the past year more than 7,000 home visits.

This year were seen 603 patients, who have generated a total of 845 revenue in the unit. These patients have generated 1,150 medical visits scheduled at home and a total of 6259 nursing visits.

These visits of sanitary equipment are scheduled, should add those others that occur in case of emergency, that have served a total of 174 medical in urgent regime and 473 urgent nursing visits.

Also, in addition to the attention at home, the unit account with telephone service for patients in follow-up, and at the end of last year have posted 2.751 telephone consultations. These data show that the UHD is today an alternative to conventional hospitalization for a certain number of patients requiring care continued by what is special about your process.
The unit of Hospital at home is one of the resources involved inside of the Plan for the improvement of home care in the region of Valencia ” and its commissioning has enabled patients of different pathologies alone go to the hospital and receive care in their own home. The UHD has contributed to increase the quality of life for palliative patients mainly with diseases chronic, patients or patients with a process complicated post-surgery.

Patients cared for by the UHD

40.4% Of patients served by the UHD were subsidiary patients receiving palliative care. Of these patients, 27.5% were cancer patients and 12.9% were not cancer palliative patients.

The monitoring programme of palliative patients has monitored the evolution of 324 patients throughout the year 2012. This has represented a total of 2.846 scheduled phone calls, 969 urgent phone calls, 170 visits in outpatient control symptoms and 179 consultations to their own hospitalization unit home.

In the section on specific programmes, were seen two patients with advanced neurological disease carriers of invasive mechanical ventilation, 26 patients with VAC systems for the management of wounds and transfusions at home program has started during the second half of the year (they have transfused at home a total of 9 patients during this period).