You can now have hospital-level care at home
Globally, more and more people accept and use digital healthcare. This helps to keep patients safer and it eases the burden on increasingly overwhelmed healthcare systems. This shift has highlighted the patient's home as an important and relevant place to deliver healthcare.
What Hospital at Home is and how we pay for it
Hospital at Home gives you the option to be treated with world-class medical resources in the comfort of your own home when you need it. In this way, you get the best of both worlds: you will be with your loved ones in familiar surroundings while you are being closely monitored throughout your treatment.
We pay for all the services that are part of Discovery's Hospital at Home programme from your Hospital Benefit. This is if you have a valid preauthorisation in the place of hospitalisation. In other words, when you have preauthorisation for a hospital admission but receive care at home.
Reimagining healthcare for you
Discovery Hospital at Home is powered by integrated, cutting-edge technology and supported by highly skilled clinical staff, clinical protocols and the best clinical practices, and appropriate medical scheme benefits. Discovery Health Medical Scheme members admitted to Hospital at Home have access to enhanced benefits and services, delivered through their personalised care team. Together, these benefits and services ensure a seamless healthcare experience for patients, making them healthier and enhancing and protecting their lives.
Hospital at Home overview
Clinical oversight
24/7 clinical oversight from a care team
Physical and virtual 24-hour care delivery facilitated by a dedicated care team that includes doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals.
Remote monitoring
24/7 real-time remote monitoring supported by cutting-edge digital healthcare technology
Patients get access to a remote monitoring device which automatically sends information to a hospital-based care team, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Medical providers can continually assess the patient's health status, monitor their medical stability, track treatment compliance and recommend interventions when necessary.
Hospital-level care
Hospital-level diagnostics and interventions
Patients get access to an enhanced range of clinical diagnostic procedures and interventions to manage medical or postsurgical hospital-level care in the home, supported by additional risk-funded benefits to enhance the member's experience.
The seamless Hospital at Home journey
Once your treating specialist identifies that you can receive hospital-level care at home, below is an example of the journey you can expect.
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Getting started
Ask your doctor if you can be treated at home
Please discuss this option with your treating doctor if you develop an illness that might need hospital treatment. Your doctor can tell you if your illness can be treated at home rather than in hospital. Your doctor can then contact the Hospital at Home team to start a treatment programme for you.
For more information, email us at hospitalhome@discovery.co.za.
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