The private, non-profit establishment is preparing a receivership procedure, due to significant financial difficulties. While a merger project with another Parisian hospital has been announced, what future for the institute’s 485 beds, 1,470 full-time equivalent jobs and 270 doctors?
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“We are preparing for legal recovery proceedings“, with an appointment before the commercial court scheduled for Wednesday, announced this Friday to theAFP the general director of the Mutualiste Montsouris institute, Jean-Michel Gayraud. “We ask the public authorities to act as quickly as possible, in a logic of fairness with other players in the sector, to preserve our establishment, a recognized player in the public hospital service.“, indicates a statement signed by 238 doctors from the establishment.
This large private, non-profit Parisian hospital has 485 beds, 1,470 full-time equivalent jobs and 270 doctors, and has university hospital status, with cutting-edge surgical activities. Its status as an Espic (private health establishment of collective interest) makes it almost comparable to a public hospital, with salaried doctors and no excess fees. It is controlled by an association dominated by the MGEN and Matmut mutual societies.
-The hospital’s finances are being undermined, like those of all hospitals at the moment, by under-compensation by the State for inflation and all the salary measures announced after the Covid crisis to avoid the exodus of caregivers from the hospital, indicates management. But Montsouris also suffers from recurring financial difficulties linked to the construction of new premises at the turn of the 2000s, when hospital activity pricing was being implemented, she explains.
“The switch to activity-based pricing has plunged the establishment into difficulty“, car “everything that previously allowed him to finance his real estate has disappeared” of public financing, indicated the director general.
The State has paid aid over the years to enable Montsouris to cope, but this aid only represented a cumulative 48 million euros, out of the 120 million euros cumulative impact of real estate. , according to Jean-Michel Gayraud. And “relations with the Regional Health Agency“who represents the State”in recent months have not made it possible to obtain the financial support that was expected for 2024“, he added.
Montsouris announced in February that it was studying a merger project with another Parisian hospital, the Saint-Joseph hospital. But this project is “suspended to give us time to explore other avenues“, specified to theAFP the president of the medical commission, Professor Marc Beaussier.
