SUNWAY Home Healthcare (SHH), a provider of extensive home healthcare services, is enhancing its offerings and technological capabilities to meet the increasing demand for home healthcare, which has become a crucial element in the continuum of care.
Through its Hospital@Home and Wellness @Home programmes, SHH aims to deliver more complex and comprehensive services in the areas of acute, sub-acute and chronic care within patient homes in the former, while emphasising disease prevention and wellness in the latter via infirmaries set up in residential areas.
Both these programmes will utilise remote monitoring and telehealth options that leverages Sunway Medical Centre’s current Telemedicine Command Centre, enabling consultants to provide better continuation of care for their patients after discharge.
Sunway Healthcare Group managing director (hospital and healthcare operations) Dr Khoo Chow Huat said such models of home healthcare are available in Singapore and Australia, and the group realises there is rising demand and a gap in the local market for such services. With the Hospital@Home, the group endeavours to shorten patients’ length of stay at the hospital by transferring certain components of care that can be administered effectively and safely at home.
“What would have been a five-day ordeal of being warded at the hospital could now be reduced to two days, as a patient can now continue their IV antibiotic drips at home. Instead of visiting the hospital once a week for physiotherapy over several months, a patient can now conduct physiotherapy at home, with teleconsultation with his or her doctor.
