For the moment, the emergencies at the Chinonais hospital center are holding up but are being put to the test by the flu epidemic, Covid and bronchiolitis. “The team is facing a lot of activity, but there is no white plan in place (1), indicates Violaine Mizzi, deputy director of the establishment alongside her wishes on Friday January 10, 2025. There are many elderly patients for whom discharge takes longer. It is very important to call 15 before going to the emergency room. »
The financial situation “remains worrying”
To cope, wearing a mask has been compulsory again since December 23, emergencies benefited from a reinforcement of caregivers last weekend. The service, which was closed for seven nights and two days in July 2024 due to a lack of sufficient doctors, is now full again after the recruitment of emergency doctors.
In 2024, 20,352 patients entered the doors of the Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt hospital, half of whom first went through the emergency room.
Arriving in September 2024, the new deputy director praised (like all the elected officials when they spoke) the commitment of the staff to “ensure quality care in all circumstances, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
The establishment does not operate alone. Starting with the CHRU of Tours “major partneraccording to the director. Alongside the 89 practitioners and interns from the Chinonais hospital center, 30 practitioners, mainly from the Tours CHRU, practice sixteen different specialties every week. This organization makes possible the oncology day hospitalization activity, which took care of 140 patients in 2024.” Partnership work also with the neighboring Jeanne-d’Arc clinic, the imaging center and the territorial professional health community (CPTS) of Rabelaisie (which brings together doctors and private caregivers).
During the wishes of the Chinonais hospital center, agents of the establishment received labor medals.
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For Violaine Mizzi “it is essential that the hospital center has the necessary resources”. For the director, the financial situation “remains worrying” and says register in “the continuity of the measures put in place in recent years” to clean up the situation. “We try to preserve employment with patients and focus the effort on the technical and administrative team”specifies the director at La NR who cites the example of a frozen IT position and the particular attention to stock management to avoid any waste.
Finally, the director praised the successes achieved and to come (creation of a mobile child-teen team, therapeutic family care, first post-penal consultation for adolescents, etc.)
(1) Plan that makes it possible to mobilize all of a hospital’s capabilities (personnel and logistics) to respond to a crisis. Many hospitals have triggered it since the start of the year to deal with the flu epidemic.
FO boycotts wishes
The Force Ouvrière union did not attend the greetings this year but pulled to the entrance to the room. The union sees in the ceremony a “self-congratulatory showcase, disconnected from reality”. He denounces understaffed work and degraded working conditions.
If the union organization notes “attentive listening” of the new director, she points “a trying daily life” and remains “waiting for concrete actions”.
Aware that the answers are found at the national level, for FO “ It is necessary that our political leaders finally prioritize a more equitable distribution of wealth. » The union is demanding, among other things, an increase in the workforce of the “replacement pool of caregivers and nurses”the reopening of the 110 closed beds, the tenure of agents.
On the closure of beds, Violaine Mizzi hopes for reopenings in 2025, particularly in medicine, and announces that she wants to avoid the temporary closure of the SMR service (medical and rehabilitation care) next summer, unlike previous summers.
