Question

How can we prevent admissions to hospital and shorten periods of hospital stay?

Problem description

The lack of alternatives for a hospital admission

Impact - effect

One of the consequences is that patients stay too long in hospital

To do

To do: we need to think about a stepped care model.  This is very well developed in Lille. The admissions to hospital are very short (7 to 10 days), in crisis situations people can end up in a hospital. There are also alternatives such as sheltered housing types, shelters in the city, family hosts and a very intensive follow-up by 2a teams (for about 14 days and several times a day) that work very closely with the teams 2b

Theme

Hospitalisation

Topic

Role, place and function of the hospital

Reference -  contact

Karen Vanhoutte, Dries Lybeer

Mobile team

2B

Project

Leuven-Tervuren

Intership abroad - place

Lille

Date

December 2012