An independent short-term inpatient unit, integrated in a hospital for the treatment of acute mental illnesses or in another institution if articulated with a mental hospital, to provide continued and intensive clinical care and supervision, and for rehabilitation and clinical care, following hospital admission due to an acute clinical condition, relapse or decompensation of a chronic process.
The Short-Term Inpatient Care unit is aimed at clinical and functional stabilisation, assessment and comprehensive rehabilitation of the person with a potentially recoverable temporary loss of autonomy and who does not require acute hospital care.
Its main objective is to contribute to the well-being and quality of life of people with temporary loss of autonomy, potentially recoverable, who need clinical care, rehabilitation and psychosocial support, in a short-stay inpatient un it, following hospitalisation caused by an acute clinical condition, relapse or decompensation of the chronic process.
It also serves people at risk of acute decompensation for reasons related to the morbidity process or to external factors, who benefit from inpatient intervention to stabilise milder conditions, in order to avoid serious psychological decompensation.
