TWO medi-hotels will be set up to help care for the growing number of COVID-19 patients needing lower-level care, easing pressure on Victoria’s hospital system.
Hotel quarantine sites are being transformed into medi-hotels, providing Hospital in the Home style care for low acuity patients in a highly controlled environment and with all the amenities of existing health hotels.
The Victorian Government said the medi-hotels would have capacity to provide care for over 300 patients at a time – in partnership with Northern Health and Royal Melbourne Hospital.
The medi-hotels will alleviate pressures on the hospital networks by freeing up beds for patients with higher-care needs, while making use of existing space in the hotel quarantine network.
Patients eligible for transfer will be those well enough to be relocated from a general hospital ward for the final stages of their clinical care. This triaging process will be carefully managed by authorised health professionals from the coordinating hospital.
