medi-hotel

These are hotels designed to suit the needs of outpatients regularly attending hospital for treatment but otherwise not in need of hospital accommodation and supervision in that they are mobile, able to look after themselves, and able to manage their own medications.  It particularly suits patients who have to travel long distances to access acute or specialist services over a period of time. The patient can be accompanied by a spouse or carer. The hotel is usually within a convenient distance of the hospital and caters to medical needs rather than tourist needs.

During the pandemic these hotels have been used as accommodation for people in enforced quarantine, or for people who have been asked to self-isolate but find that impossible to do at their home.   South Australia in particular continues to use the term medi-hotel for the place where those in quarantine will stay whereas the rest of the country uses quarantine hotel.