“Its liquidation could take place in a few days,” warned the Minister of Health Yannick Neuder on January 15. This warning about a probable bankruptcy filing for the Mutualiste Montsouris Institute, a Parisian private health establishment of collective interest located on Boulevard Jourdan (14th century), seems to be confirmed.
“We are preparing for a judicial recovery procedure”, with an appointment before the commercial court scheduled for Wednesday, the general director of the establishment, Jean-Michel Gayraud, told AFP this Friday, January 21.
“We ask the public authorities to act as quickly as possible, in a logic of fairness with other players in the sector, to preserve our establishment, a recognized player in the public hospital service”, indicates a forum signed by 238 doctors from the establishment .
The Montsouris institute has 485 beds, 1,470 full-time equivalent jobs and 270 doctors, and has university hospital status, with cutting-edge surgical activities. Its status as an Espic (private health establishment of collective interest) makes it almost comparable to a public hospital, with salaried doctors and no excess fees.
Recurring financial difficulties since the 2000s
The hospital's finances are being undermined, like those of all hospitals at the moment, by under-compensation by the State for inflation and all the salary measures announced after the Covid crisis to avoid the exodus of caregivers from the hospital, indicates the management of this establishment controlled by an association dominated by the MGEN and Matmut mutual societies.
-But Montsouris also suffers from recurring financial difficulties linked to the construction of new premises at the turn of the 2000s, when hospital activity pricing was being implemented, she explains.
“The switch to activity-based pricing has plunged the establishment into difficulty”, because “everything that previously allowed it to finance its real estate has disappeared” from public financing, indicated the general director.
The State has paid aid over the years to enable Montsouris to cope, but this aid only represented a cumulative 48 million euros, out of the 120 million euros cumulative impact of real estate. , according to Michel Gayraud. And “relations with the Regional Health Agency” which represents the State “during recent months have not made it possible to obtain the financial support that was expected in 2024,” he added.
Montsouris announced in February that it was studying a merger project with another Parisian hospital, the Saint-Joseph hospital. But this project is “suspended to give us time to study other avenues,” the president of the medical commission, Professor Marc Beaussier, told AFP.
