In application of article L. 6111-1-6, healthcare establishments may offer their patients, on medical prescription from a practitioner practising within the establishment, a temporary non-medical accommodation service, before or after a hospital stay or a treatment session.
Any healthcare establishment planning to offer the service referred to in the first paragraph must declare this, at least thirty days before the date on which it is to be set up, to the regional health agency with territorial jurisdiction, indicating any third party delegated to provide the service.
The temporary accommodation service is scheduled as part of the patient’s care programme. It may not exceed three consecutive nights without a procedure or service provided by the healthcare establishment to which the practitioner prescribing the temporary non-medical accommodation is affiliated. Temporary accommodation provided before or after a hospital stay may not exceed a total of twenty-one nights, excluding the hospital stay.
No care is provided in this temporary accommodation by the healthcare establishment mentioned in the second paragraph, except that provided for in articles L. 6316-1 and L. 6316-2 and that provided in an emergency situation.
The thresholds mentioned in the third paragraph do not apply to the accommodation of patients transferred between the territories and local authorities mentioned inArticle 73 of the Constitution, the territories of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, or to the accommodation of patients transferred from these territories to mainland France or from mainland France to these territories.