Who’s eligible for Silver Chain Home Hospital care?

Before you refer a patient to Silver Chain Home Hospital, find out who’s eligible to receive our acute and sub-acute in-home care.

 Are your patients eligible?

Home Hospital care services are available to people living in their own home, or in a residential care facility.

Patients must be:

• Referred from a public hospital/ED, GP, specialist or aged care facility
• In need of short-term acute and subacute care that can be delivered safely in the home
• Medically and mentally stable
• Medicare eligible
• Aged 13 or over and able to provide consent
• Able to communicate effectively, either directly or through an interpreter

Patients must not:

• Require an emergency response
• Be more than 22 weeks pregnant

Home Hospital services are now available to some patients who have private health insurance. Find out more.

Learn more about our Silver Chain Home Hospital program and its many benefits, as well as what can be treated. Sign up for a GP workshop for more information about utilising our services, or refer a patient today.