Hospitalisation at Home Takes Speed in Spain: 6,000 Patients Are Treated Every Day in Their Homes

The internists say that, with a pressure that grows in hospitals and an increasingly aging population, hospitalization at home is revealed as efficient, humane and sustainable. For the patient, it involves comfort, autonomy and intimacy. In Spain, with estimates from the Spanish Society of Home Hospitalization (SEHAD), which presides Dr. María Ruiz Castellano, about 6,000 people benefit from this type of care a day and are given about 220,000 hi…