By Corinne Gallier
Published on 25 Feb 21 at 7:50
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Jacques Coquelin, vice-president of the Cotentin urban community, in charge of major projects and health policies, and Ralph Lejamtel, advisor in charge of prevention and health education, have just announced the launch ofa feasibility study for a community health center.
Since its creation in 2017, the Cotentin community has among its skills that related to health issues. She has undertaken several actions, including “seduction” operations towards medical students in order to make them want to settle one day in the territory …
To take into account both the expectations of inhabitants of urban and rural areas, as well as the working aspirations of health professionals, we have mainly worked in the direction of a network of Cotentin by structures allowing users to have access to primary care within 15 minutes of their home. This has resulted in support for liberal ambulatory health centers (PSLA) projects.
Like the Brès-Croizat center in Cherbourg
–The Agglomeration has therefore decided today to move up an additional level by studying the possibility of establishing a health center, like the city of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin with the centre Brès-Croizat, opened in March 2020. Here, the practitioners (two general practitioners, a pediatrician and a midwife for the moment) are salaried and we practice full third-party payment. The center was created in particular to offer a range of care to patients who no longer had attending physicians.
Bringing together health professionals around a common health project can be done in several ways: liberal, as is the case for PSLAs, but also in the form of salaried workers, such as health centers. In order to enrich our panel in terms of installation possibilities, these can be an additional asset to meet the expectations of certain doctors.
The study, broken down into three phases, will have to answer several questions: where to install the center (s), with how many practitioners, what economic model? … At this stage, the elected officials consider “that we can imagine anything”, and that “we can consider working in this project with other communities such as the Department”.
Results expected at the end of 2021.
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