Ruber Internacional Hospital promotes an advanced model of home hospitalisation with specialised clinical monitoring

Ruber Internacional Hospital has reinforced its commitment to an innovative, patient-centred healthcare model through its Home Care Unit, a service that allows hospital care to be transferred to the home with the same standards of safety, quality and clinical excellence that characterise the centre.

The proposal responds to a growing trend in modern medicine: offering complex treatments outside the hospital without compromising on safety. This model allows the intensity of care to be flexibly adapted according to the patient's progress, ensuring continuous technological and human support at all stages of the care process.

Hospitalisation at home with hospital-level care

The Home Care Unit is designed for patients who require close clinical monitoring, post-operative care, support for chronic diseases or specialised treatments. The teams at Ruber Internacional Hospital directly coordinate and supervise the care plan, with the operational, technological and equipment support necessary to guarantee safe and personalised care.

The three main lines of hospitalisation include telematic home hospitalisation, focused on medical and nursing follow-up through remote monitoring and permanent telephone support; short-term home hospitalisation, which offers intensive care in the initial stages of the clinical process or after surgery; and continuous home hospitalisation, which provides daily visits, support therapies and medical equipment for prolonged and supervised treatments.

It also includes medical visits, nursing, physiotherapy, psychological support and remote supervision, always under the clinical control of the hospital.

A clinical model structured in phases

The clinical model is structured around a care pathway divided into three progressive stages. The subacute phase involves a period of intensive monitoring, with daily medical visits and multidisciplinary support to ensure safe progress. Next, the recovery phase maintains specialised clinical monitoring, adjusting the frequency of interventions as the patient gains stability. Finally, the maintenance phase offers flexible and, in many cases, remote supervision, aimed at consolidating the patient's autonomy and accompanying their return to everyday life.

The design allows for safe hospitalisation at home, which is particularly valued by patients seeking to avoid prolonged hospital stays, minimise the risk of nosocomial infections and maintain an emotionally more favourable environment for their recovery.

Comprehensive and personalised care

The unit provides patients with a multidisciplinary team of more than 65 professionals — doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, physiotherapists, complex patient specialists, psychologists and occupational therapists — who work together to ensure comprehensive and effective care.

The care services include home hospitalisation, post-operative care, care for chronic and complex patients, advanced nursing care, catheter and tube management, enteral or parenteral nutrition, respiratory and neurological physiotherapy, speech therapy, cognitive stimulation and caregiver support programmes, among others.

Scientific evidence and proven benefits

Home hospitalisation has growing scientific support. International studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Nature Medicine endorse this model for its safety, effectiveness and clinical benefits:

Lower risk of hospital infections.
Greater patient satisfaction.
Faster recovery.
Reduction in readmissions.
The model combines clinical rigour, technology and humanity to offer high-quality care in the most comfortable environment for the patient: their home.