Home Health Care Sector in Lebanon

The Health Care Sector in Lebanon. Overview.

The Lebanese health care system is a mixture of a market oriented system and a national health service. Health care is largely a private enterprise delivered by private physicians and hospitals.

Total health expenditure represents 12.32% of the gross domestic product, the highest in the region and in Europe. Private insurance cover 10 to 15%of the population.

A social security service provides health care coverage to workers and employees of the private sector representing 17.8% of health consumers.

It is a highly centralized organization that is funded by contributions from employees and employers.

Employees of the public sector (4.5% of the population) and members of the armed forces and their families (8.1%) receive care from independent services funded by the government. About 46% of the Lebanese population doesn’t have health coverage. The Ministry of Health pays for a certain % of their hospital care in private and public hospitals. Direct charges to patients are relatively high.

Nursing at Home Agency. Overview

Nursing At Home agency was founded in 2000, in Lebanon, with the belief that people are happiest being cared for in the comfort of their own homes. The company grew from serving a small number of clients to currently caring for more than 100. Services include:

• Assisted daily living program i.e.: assisting the patients in their everyday tasks

• 24hr live-in care

• Night shift sleep over

• Rental of medical equipments like hospital beds, crutches, walker, and wheel chairs.

• Physiotherapy

• Speech therapy

All the services are rendered in the client’s own home, in all over Lebanon.

The company has employed between 100-150 full and part time carers. All those services are not covered neither reimbursed by the ministry of health, or by the social security, or by the private insurance companies.

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