A day hospital is an outpatient facility where patients attend for assessment, treatment or rehabilitation during the day and then return home or spend the night at a different facility.[1] Day hospitals are becoming a new trend in healthcare.[2] The number of surgical procedures carried out on a same-day basis has markedly increased in EU countries and USA. New medical technologies such as less invasive surgeries and better anesthetics have made this development possible. These innovations improve patient safety and health outcomes. Shortening the length of stay in hospital reduces the cost per intervention and increases the number of procedures performed. Less hospital beds are necessary, and they are often replaced by day hospital chairs that enable admission and preparation of the patient before surgery and recovery after surgery.
The patient groups most likely to receive this sort of hospital provision are elderly people, those with psychiatric problems, and those with physical rehabilitative needs. It is also used for some cancer treatments, as at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and London's UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre. Day hospitals were created during the soviet Union under Staline, they were imported to modern occidental countries after the second world war. In France, there are day hospitals specialized in psychiatric. Sick people have an appointment with a psychiatric physician once a month dor check up , to get drug prescription and talk. They are called "Hopital de jour" in french. For instance the day hospital of a french city has a medical service with 6 doctors , 12 nurses, 5 secretary, 7 social workers . The social service help the people to get free medical inssurance, to get a monthly income for those who can't work because of strong disability , to find a home for rent, to get a tutor who will manage the money for the people who spend a lot.