A cardiology center for Rodez, a hospital for Millau

Last July, elected officials, health actors and state services met in Rodez, in the prefecture, around Pierre Ricordeau, the director general of ARS Occitanie, to discuss the funding needs of different establishments in the territory. Sell, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, accompanied by Brigitte Bourguignon, Minister Delegate in charge of Autonomy, was in Montpellier to present the investment projects supported by the State, within the framework of the Ségur de la Santé. He announced € 1.4 billion for the entire Occitanie region, including around € 130 million for Aveyron. “ On the whole of the GHT, all the projects that we defended were accepted “, smiled in the evening Vincent Prévoteau, director of the hospital of Rodez and the GHT of Nord-Aveyron. With substantial funds for Rodez hospital in particular. It is an envelope of more than 28 M € which will be released. This will be partially allocated to closing the deficit, which validates the approach undertaken for several years to restore the financial situation, but another substantial pat will be used to “ kill three birds with one stone “, according to the director. Indeed, the creation of a new building, dedicated to cardiology, will be initiated. This new unit will make it possible to free up space in the main building to reallocate services and open beds, but also to create resuscitation places. Indeed, the Covid crisis has shown that the current eleven places, the only ones in Aveyron, were not sufficient. And the lessons seem to have been learned. However, we will have to wait a little longer to know the precise figure. Second large-scale project on the site of the Jacques-Puel hospital center, the restructuring of the Peyrières site (Olemps), which houses a nursing home, as well as follow-up and rehabilitation services (SSR) and care units. long duration (USLD), is programmed. The place, very dilapidated, will be redeveloped with the aim, in particular, of creating individual rooms. The final scenario for the site, which will take place while the space is occupied, has not yet been decided.

A new hospital in South Aveyron

But Jean Castex also officially announced the upcoming construction of a new hospital in South Aveyron, which will bring together the current units of Millau and Saint-Affrique. The precise location has not yet been chosen and it will be up to the ARS, in exchange with the local elected officials, to choose the precise location. Several options are on the table, but that of Saint-Georges-de-Luzençon, with two potential areas, comes back with insistence, even if the Millavois still defend the possibility of rehabilitating the current hospital. There, the amount of the investment was not announced. Only two envelopes of just over € 3 million for the current structures of Millau and Saint-Affrique, which are to be used for debt reduction, have been formalized. But according to our information, the State should allocate around € 60 million for the creation of the new site.