The file received favorable opinions: the new scanner implanted in the Tarn will be at Gaillac Hospital, which has also obtained High Quality of Care certification.
Within two years, the time of an implementation which has its own requirements, the Hospital of Gaillac will have a scanner. Alexandre Fritsch, director of the hospitals of Gaillac, Graulhet, Albi and of the Ehpad de Rabastens, announced it in the presence of Olivier Munsch, director of the site, and doctor François Jattiot, president of the medical commission of the establishment. .
The file has passed the first stage, with the favorable opinion of the Regional Health Authority (ARS). As part of the regional health plan which provided, a year ago, to install a new scanner in the Tarn, he obtained 21 votes out of 27 (3 against and 3 abstentions), far ahead of the other applicants who obtained a maximum of 14 voices.
Good news, it is said, never arriving alone, the Gaillac Hospital obtained certification with the High Quality of Care mention which was awarded to it after a week during which independent experts commissioned by the ARS peeled care pathways and the overall quality of services.
Tracer patients
These experts followed “patient tracers” and “patient pathways”, including by interviewing them (with their consent). They do not evade any question, whether it is meals, the availability of staff and the medical acts that are provided. This mention facilitated the defense of the “scanner” file orally and should also allow access to quality credits. It remains for the regional director of the ARS to validate the vote before starting the implementation work.
Once the building permit has been approved, the scanner should find its place on the ground floor, with access through the entrance office. The hospital will have to set up a dedicated car park, which means reconsidering all traffic in the establishment, and choosing the equipment. As for the practitioners, they will be part of a group around radiologists from Albi Hospital and independent radiologists from Albi and Montauban. A public-private assembly on a 60%-40% basis, said Alexandre Fritsch, who adds that this scanner will be accessible to the entire population and not only to hospitalized people. This imaging will develop the medical offer and give the Gaillac site concrete content for its local hospital label.
New medical specialties arrive at the Hospital
By obtaining the Local Hospital label in 2022, which commits it to being part of a collective regional project “to respond as closely as possible to the health needs of the population”, the Gaillac Hospital is developing its healthcare offer. It previously had a medical service, a long-stay unit and a rehabilitation unit (follow-up and rehabilitation unit), as well as a conventional imaging unit allowing chest X-rays, unprepared abdomen, upper and lower limbs.
From now on, this label gives access to new medical specialties. For biology, an agreement has been signed with the laboratory of the Albi Hospital, while “advanced consultations” are or will be provided by practitioners seconded from the Albigensian structure. These consultations relate to orthopedic surgery of the lower limbs, by doctor Henrique Peque, dermatology since December 2022 and visceral surgery, from April 5, with doctors Sébastien Blaye-Felice and Leandro Valdambrini who will welcome patients on Wednesdays and Friday mornings.
From next May, two dermatologists, Chloé Valettes and Louise Lappelle, who already consult on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, will be joined by a new colleague, which will ensure a consultation every day, specified Alexandre Fritsch, director hospitals in Albi, Gaillac, Graulhet and the Rabastens nursing home. He mentioned the possibility of an upcoming advanced consultation in cardiology.
Olivier Munsch, director of the Gaillac site, added that the arrival of these specialist consultations was only possible because the teams at Albi Hospital were strengthened and diversified. They can therefore intervene in peripheral establishments. Alexandre Fritsch underlined the objective of strengthening ties with the professional health community of the territory (CPTS du Grand Gaillacois) and announced a project for a nursing home within the Hospital which should be completed within two years. The care offer would be wider, the appointment times shortened, the distances to access a practitioner too.
