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David Goudey
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Oct 8, 2024 at 6:16 p.m.
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Work began at the beginning of 2024. The construction of the new building adult emergencies of the François-Quesnay hospital center (CHFQ), in Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines), is making great strides.
On October 3, during a symbolic laying of the first stone, general director Diane Petter made a promise that the deadlines would be met. Commissioning is expected “in the first quarter of 2026”.
4,000 m2 and two levels
The work, 4,000 m2 and two levels, will also house the mobile emergency and resuscitation service (Smur) as well as the mortuary roomtoday located in town.
“Pediatric and gynecological emergencies will remain in their current premises in the main building while psychiatric emergencies will remain hosted in the crisis unit in the Nicolas-de-Staël building. »
The project is estimated at €27.5 million (all taxes included), financed to the tune of €12.5 million by the Ministry of Health and theRegional Health Agency (ARS) d’Île-de-France as part of the Ségur Plan and for €15 million by the hospital itself through a loan from the Banque des Territories.
The building designed for 48,000 passages per year
Designed for 23,000 visits when the new hospital opened at the end of the 1990s, the current adult emergency department and “its sixty professionals”, calculates the general director Diane Petter, manages today 36,000 patients per year.
The new infrastructure has been designed for 48,000 passages in order to “relieve congestion in the historic building”, explains Diane Petter. “All managements have constantly warned about the emergency situation in Mantes,” recalled Marie-Hélène Pic, the president of the establishment medical commission. There was a great wait. »
“The local first aid service”
Because, as Mayor Raphaël Cognet, president of the CHFQ supervisory board, points out, the Mantes hospital is for a large majority of the local population “the only place where you can get treatment due to the bankruptcy of community medicine.
In its report made public in mid-September on the situation of the François-Quesnay hospital center, the Regional Chamber of Accounts also observed that “the CHFQ constitutes the first recourse service in the territory as evidenced by the significant increase in emergency attendance”.
The regional health agency
This is why, despite the great financial difficulties of the hospital, also pointed out by the Regional Chamber of Accounts, the ARS considered that it should continue to be alongside the CHFQ.
“We still believe in our health system. We want to invest in it, develop it, modernize it. The emergency room is the window of a hospital. Those in Mantes were not worthy of the investment of staff and we must live up to patients’ expectations. »
An audit ordered to regain “financial sustainability”
The ARS is not, however, a bottomless pit. In his speech, Denis Robin announced that a audit was going to be carried out within the François-Quesnay hospital center by the National Agency for Health and Medico-Social Performance (Anap).
“The recommendations will make it possible to move towards financial sustainability and ease of investing,” said the director general of the ARS. But at your own pace, without disturbing anything. »
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