According to the establishment, “this decision follows a financing reform decided by the State and implemented by the Regional Health Agency, resulting in the exclusion of the flow of these consultations from emergency activity reports”. At the start of the year, the clinic alerted the ARS “to the difficult consequences of this decision, which would lead to a reduction in the population allocation received by the establishment”. This reduction in funding jeopardizes the economic balance of the activity.
6 700 patients
This dental emergency service cares for more than 6,700 patients per year. It is today co-financed by the population allocation and the billing of passages. “The reform project calls into question this financing, thus transforming a balanced, or even surplus, service into a loss-making activity, with a loss estimated at 574,000 euros if the activity had to be reconverted into a health center,” it is pointed out. in a press release.
“The closure will have difficult consequences for patients in the Gironde region, particularly for those referred by the Samu, who risk finding themselves without emergency dental care available in the region. The emergency departments of other establishments, by treating only pain which would continue to refer to a dental surgeon, would see their funding increase, thus creating a flagrant inequality.”
More than two thirds of the patients treated in Pessac come from dental health professionals, from center 15, and from Saint-André hospital.
