Dr Elisabeth HUBERT
Former Minister
President of the FNEHAD

Associating hospital care and the home is an idea that, still today, often gives rise to raised eyebrows, surprise or even reticence.
The goal of the FNEHAD (Fédération Nationale des Etablissements d’Hospitalisation à Domicile – [French] National Federation of Hospital Care at Home) is, precisely, to demonstrate that the quality of hospital care is compatible with the comfort of being at home.

Quality healthcare, attending to patients needs.

Hospital care at home (HCH) is hospital care. It is the means to provide continual and coordinated medical and paramedical care in the patient’s own home, in association with a hospital physician, the patient’s GP and all paramedical, social workers and occupational therapists.

Patients of all ages – children, teenagers, adults – suffering from acute or chronic and often multiple, changing and/or unstable pathologies are concerned by hospital care at home because if it weren’t for the existence of hospital care at home, they would be admitted as inpatients in traditional hospital establishments.

Working to develop and increase access to Hospital Care at Home.

A federation that is unique in its ambition and role.

Set up in 1973, FNEHAD is the only hospital federation dedicated to Hospital Care at Home (HCH or HAD in French).

It regroups some 208 HCH located all over France whatever their legal status (public, non profit private, profit making private).  Between them, these establishments represent more than 93% of Hospital at Home care days in 2010.