"Short-stay healthcare beds"

Short-stay healthcare beds are designed to provide temporary accommodation for people who are homeless and whose state of health does not justify admission to hospital but does require appropriate treatment and care.

In addition to the prescription of a course of treatment, people often need to stay in their rooms, along with regular visits from a nurse or a physiotherapist…

The situation becomes more complicated when a carer needs to be present: if an arm or leg is immobilised by a fracture, etc.

Although this is always a difficult situation for anyone, it can become very serious for a homeless person. How can you undergo a course of treatment, receive care, stay lying down "in the warm" when you have no choice but to wander from one hostel to another, from the concourse of a railway station to an underground station ?

the ABEJ-Lille has been accredited for 10 of these beds. They are at the accommodation centre and are provided in individual rooms.The projected length of the stay must not exceed two months, but it remains subject to any changes in the state of health of the person in question.

A satisfactory solution for leaving the accommodation must be sought during the stay.
The LHSSs are open 24 hours a day and 365 days a year and offer accommodation, medical and paramedical care, follow-up on the treatment, social support, health organisation and education services. They are accessible to the disabled.

People requiring accommodation in a "short-stay healthcare bed" are referred by the "Médecins Solidarité Lille" (Lille Doctors' Solidarity) association which has the job of regulating places across the whole of the system, because there are other accommodation centres also offering short-stay healthcare beds.

This system is co-ordinated by the Réseau Santé Solidarité Lille Métropole.