Emergency at the CH de Sens
Faced with the massive influx of patients in the Emergency Department in the context of winter epidemics, the Sens Hospital Center triggered the “Hospital under tension” plan on January 2, 2025. A system reinforced by the “Internal Mobilization” plan since January 4. Also, hospital staff strongly recommend vaccination (flu and covid) especially for the most vulnerable populations.
The Sens hospital is facing a massive influx of patients into the Emergency Department. The cause is a particularly significant wave of flu that health professionals expected in 2023. The effects of confinements and extreme distancing measures during the Covid-19 epidemic. The lack of contact with microbes has weakened the immune system which “unlearns very quickly, especially as you get older and especially as you have health problems” explains Doctor Aline Creuwels, head of the medicine department. An influx also due to less activity in city medicine during the Christmas holidays and the medical desertification of the territory.
The hospital also notes a drastic drop in flu and covid-19 vaccinations in 2023. Doctors also point out that it is still possible to be vaccinated and strongly encourage the most vulnerable people to carry out their boosters, a annual vaccination, or even every 6 months for immunocompromised people.
It is also advisable to first dial 15 (Samu, firefighters, etc.) before traveling, a platform able to assess the level of urgency of calls and redirect patients to suitable services, also depending on of their geographical position, and thus alleviate the Emergencies of the Hospital Center.
A number of patients admitted to emergency departments doubled
Patients also flock from neighboring departments (Aube, Seine-et-Marne, Loiret) at an average of 160 visits per day for all emergencies combined, compared to 80 to 90 visits per day in normal times. In total, the hospital records 1,128 visits 7 days from January 1 to 7, 2025 with a peak on January 2 (189 passages) This increase results in high attendance in theaters. waiting. Patients wait on stretchers in the corridors. The hospital notes with bitterness a deterioration in reception conditions, discontent, difficulties in streamlining patient journeys and even coordination for the return home.
A “Hospital under tension” plan launched on January 2, 2025
In response to this influx, the establishment has implemented measures which consist of a pooling of teams including 8 day nurses and 5 night nurses, and the deprogramming of operations “for which the postponement had the least consequence” in order to close the surgical beds to transform them into medical beds, i.e. 10 this week. “Today, the Sens hospital is at the limit. There are no more beds available, no more doctors or caregivers available, we have our nursing homes full. We no longer have any maneuvering steps” explains Véronique Robin, director of the CH de Sens.
The return of home nursing
The Sens Hospital Center also announced the establishment of an SSIAD (Health Nursing Home Care) from Monday January 13. “For me, the hospital must today leave its walls. People come and we ultimately have to go home to monitor them and bring them back to the hospital when the doctor really believes that there is no other solution.” explains Véronique Robin.
Floriane BOIVIN
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