An innovative and experimental project. A year and a half after the launch of the “HOME” device (Supported Community Housing), the Gérard-Marchant hospital in Toulouse draws up an initial positive and encouraging assessment.
It is part of a more global approach to improving the patient journey and access to care.
An alternative to psychiatric hospitalization
Led by the Gérard-Marchant hospital and supported by the ARS Occitanie, “HOME” presents itself as a real alternative to inadequate hospitalizations in psychiatry by offering a support in social rehabilitation.
In doing so, he addresses the people with chronic psychiatric illnesses (schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, etc.) and presenting a major and persistent disability in their daily functioning.
In practice, the Union Cépière Robert-Monnier (UCRM) is responsible for identifying accommodation to facilitate hospital discharges. A crucial step since most of the users supported do not have a home or no longer have one.
Nowadays, 81 patients have joined the system with a target of 100 by the end of 2024. 45 of them have been able to benefit from housing, 60 are being monitored outside the hospital and around ten are back (or almost) in employment.
Even if some users still oscillate between periods of hospitalization and life at home, the vast majority of them have significantly reduced their number of days of hospitalization compared to years N-1 and N-2,” the health establishment indicates on its website.
With recovery at the heart of the action, many resocialization projects are currently underway thanks, in particular, to the mobilization of a multidisciplinary mobile team.
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