This page provides information on supports and services to help you stay well after you leave the hospital. Your well-being is our top priority and we want you to leave our hospital feeling reassured and well-informed, ready for the next steps in your recovery journey.
Sometimes patients reach a point where they are medically stable and well, but a full recovery will take a little more time. As a recovering patient, you may need some additional supports to help you get home and settled, and get back to your day-to-day life.
We will talk to you and your family to advise you on a care plan that is designed just for you, to help you recover as best you can once you leave the hospital.
You will be involved in the plan for your hospital discharge every step of the way, but please talk to your medical team or the nurses on the ward if you are worried about anything, or don’t feel confident about leaving yet.
Your doctors and nurses may decide to continue your treatment in your own home following your discharge. This can be with the support of your local health service or other healthcare organisations. It can include things like home visits from nurses, physiotherapy, blood tests, dressings and antibiotic treatments.
There are a number of ways for you to leave hospital feeling supported and we explain some of these below. Your doctor or nurse or our social work team will explain all of your options to you
Rehabilitation is a treatment designed to help you recover from injury, illness, or disease, and to return as normal a condition as possible. We may recommend that you have rehabilitation in a specialist rehabilitation unit. We will talk to you about this before you leave the hospital and refer you to a unit within your area. An example of this would be Clontarf Hospital for rehabilitation of patients who have had a hip or knee replacement.
Similar to Rehabilitation, Transitional Care (or Step-Down Care) is sometimes used to bridge the gap between Hospital and home. If for example you are on an IV (an intravenous line in your vein to continue to give you medication), or if you need light rehabilitation or cannot weight bear due to a fracture etc, but are medically well, you may be transferred to a a Nursing Home or Convalescent Care Centre to continue your recovery. Transitional care is also used to bridge the gap between home and long term care while waiting on funding, nursing home
You may have been transferred to Beaumont Hospital from another acute hospital for specialist treatment. If so, we will aim to discharge you back to your local hospital once your specialist treatment is finished and you are well enough to return there.
If you were transferred to Beaumont Hospital from a nursing home for treatment, we will aim to discharge you back to your nursing home once your treatment is finished and you are well enough to return there.
You, your family, and your healthcare team may decide that the best option for you is long-term care within a nursing home. If this is the case, you can get help with moving to a nursing home and the Fair Deal Scheme from our medical social work department and the hospital discharge coordinator.
Home care packages are a range of supports funded by the HSE to help an older person to be cared for in their own home. It usually means you receive care in your home for a number of hours a week, but other services are often provided. If you are awaiting a home care package, it may be a few weeks before this can begin. While you wait you may be transferred to a stepdown unit (such as a nursing or convalescent care centre) until your home care package is in place.
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