France — The Nevers hospital center inaugurated a new boarding school in early July. With this modern building, costing 3.7 million euros, with 40 rooms and well equipped, the establishment hopes to attract and retain health professionals. And maintain a care offer in Nièvre (58), seriously under-resourced.
Forty rooms from 20 to 30 m2spread over two floors, all equipped with a bathroom and a kitchenette, and on the ground floor a common living space of 150 m2 with bay windows, furnished with table football and ping-pong table, a kitchen, a laundry room, a video-conference room, a bike room but also an outdoor terrace with garden furniture and barbecue… The Nevers hospital center has no not skimp on the means for the new boarding school inaugurated at the beginning of July but which has already been welcoming since the 1is its first boarders last May.
At the end of nearly two years of work which required 3.7 million euros, the new building of 1500 m2, attached to the Pierre-Bérégovoy hospital, is now operational. And the management of the CH de Nevers hopes that the new boarding school will serve as a loss leader to make health professionals in training want to come and join their hospital. “We try to attract students from the 4e year of medicine to give them a taste for the hospital and make them want to come back during the internship”, comments Severine Collotdirector of medical affairs at CH de Nevers.
Opened in May, the new boarding school of 1500 m2 is connected by a gallery to the Pierre-Bérégovoy hospital.
A penalizing internship assignment process
Each semester, 30 internship sites are offered to interns in the region, but the number of those finally assigned fluctuates. “There were 17 the previous semester but there are only seven this summer semester, the interns traditionally remaining in the Dijon University Hospital on which they depend”, explains Benoit Marbottedirector of equipment, works, economic and logistical services (DESSECOL).
“We are not very favored by the process of assigning interns, analyzes Séverine Collot. Despite the good evaluations of our internships, we suffer from the distance from the Dijon University Hospital to which we are attached. Interns do not come to us first. »
The CH has therefore decided to take the bull by the horns by building this new boarding school but also by promoting its training offer a little more. “Communication work must be done at all levels, from the ARS to the CHU, to promote internships in our establishment. We also promote relations between department heads and sector coordinators to promote the internship offer at Nevers”, specifies the director of medical affairs.
Exit the former boarding school which dated from the opening of the hospital in 2003 and whose premises had become too cramped and had deteriorated and will be rehabilitated into offices. “We wanted more space to accommodate all the interns on site, details Benoît Marbotte. We have put the means to offer a modern and friendly environment, each room is equipped so that the intern can live independently, and all the interns have their own parking space. »
Open for less than three months, the building has already filled up, or almost. Only 4 bedrooms are unoccupied. Because the building was also designed to accommodate hospital health professionals who would need it. About fifteen acting as interns are therefore housed there in July, as well as five interns, a few externs, midwifery students and a few temporary contractors and paramedics. A full-time person has been recruited to manage the hotel coordination, the reception of goods, but also the cleaning of the common areas.
A communal kitchen allows residents to share their meals or take meals delivered by the hospital.
Long work of seduction
Being one of the first to be able to stay there, Harry Benlefkiintern in general medicine of 2e year, welcomes the opening of the boarding school. “It is spacious, comfortable, well laid out, it is an excellent thing that it has opened, it contributes to the good reception of interns and to creating a good atmosphere”, affirms the future doctor, who is doing his 2e internship at CH de Nevers in pediatrics after a first in geriatrics. But a beautiful building is not everything. “The most important thing is the quality of the training and internships. Will Dr. Benlefki set up his practice in Nièvre in a few years? Originally from the south of France, the young man affirms that his professional project is “not yet defined”.
We all have at heart with the agglomeration and the local actors to make our territory attractive
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The boarding school is only one stone in a great edifice in an attempt to attract future care recruits. Anxious to fight against the medical desertification of the Nièvre, all the stakeholders are getting involved. The agglomeration of the Val de Loire Nivernais country recently organized a day of discovery of the territory to show its assets during a weekend in the neighboring Morvan, with rafting and other cultural and sporting activities. “We all have at heart with the agglomeration and the local actors to make our territory attractive”, comments Séverine Collot.
“Flying doctors”, a fake good idea?
Some mixed hospital-city internships are offered to students as well as having the possibility of having assistant positions shared between Nevers and Dijon. And the Hospital Center does not despair of being able to welcome students and interns from the Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital, a little closer to Nevers than Dijon, for internships.
To facilitate the arrival of interns and doctors from Dijon to Nevers and reduce their journey time (2h30 by car), the idea of setting up an airline between the two cities is being studied which would reduce the journey to 35 minutes. This “flying doctors” project, revealed by The Journal of the Centeris carried by Denis Thuriotmayor of Nevers and president of Nevers Agglomeration, but also chairman of the supervisory board of CH de Nevers.
The town hall of Nevers and the agglomeration are also delegated owners of Nevers-Fourchambault airport, with the department of Nièvre and the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. This airline would perhaps be a boost in the fight against medical desertification. At the time of the necessary reduction of carbon emissions to fight against global warming, it would on the other hand be an ecological aberration.
Present every working day until 3:30 p.m., a hotel coordinator monitors administrative requests, cleaning of common areas and inventory management.
Residents can meet in this common room of 150 m2
A videoconference room can be reserved by interns and health professionals for meetings with the Dijon University Hospital
Four washing machines and four dryers are available in the laundry room
Of the 40 bedrooms, 4 of 30 m2 are reserved for caregiver couples
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