Through Benjamin Raft
Published on 22 May 21 at 6:20 p.m.
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“Having all the strings to our bow”. Corinne Seneschal, director ofAbbeville hospital and you Center Hospitalier Intercommunal de la Baie de Somme (CHIBS), rejoiced, like the others present on May 21, 2021 at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme (Somme), the partnership signed between the two structures.
Strong demand for senior care
The CHIBS, which includes sites in the city of Valércaine and Rue, concluded with his colleague from Abbeville a Fédération Médicale Inter Hospitalière (FMIH) devoted to geriatrics, a very strong demand in the region ”, recalls Stephane bake, deputy director of CHIBS.
The goal is to link the two establishments in order to deploy a new common organization for this service dedicated to the elderly. “Thus we will be able to offer the whole range of possible care in geriatrics”, assures the leader.
The CHIBS, in particular the Port de la Baie de Somme hospital, is locally renowned for its geriatric service, which represents 90% of its activity. “But there is also palliative care, rehabilitation”, specifies Xavier Lefevbre, practitioner and president of the medical study commission (CME) at CHIBS.
The healthcare offer in Picardy Maritime
Aftercare and Rehabilitation Services (SSR), a Long-Term Care Unit (USLD), a Transitional Geriatric Reception Unit (UTAG), a Mobile Geriatric Team (EMG) and a Mobile Psycho-Team Geriatrics (EMPGE), a Short Stay Geriatric (CSG), a Geriatric Day Hospital (HDJ) but also EHPAD with the Georges-Dumont establishment in Abbeville, the EHPAD of CHIBS which has 3 residences in Rue and one in Saint -Valery-sur-Somme. Specialized consultations in memory, gerontological, oncogeriatric and fall evaluation will also be offered in both structures.
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But this does not prevent the local establishment, by its modest size, does not offer, despite its beds dedicated to long stay, all the possible services in geriatrics, such as rapid interventions, short stay and transitional reception. as well as specialized consultations.
Services offered by theAbbeville, who suffers from a lack in terms of long stay and rehabilitation.
Complementary, the two structures were made to join forces in order to offer a maximum of care as close as possible to where the patients live. “We are obliged today to properly serve the population. We cannot live in autarky, ”admits Xavier Lefebvre.
“We will thus be able to set up common training courses, discuss our practices, share resources, all in order to improve care”, summarizes Ahmed Berami, head of the geriatrics pole at Abbeville hospital.
Staff at both sites
While transfers are already taking place between the two hospitals, partners since the 1990s and under joint management since 2018, staff can then be mobilized on the two sites.
“Because it is easier to move doctors than patients, who should benefit from these changes”, notes Michel Kfoury, emergency physician and president of the CME at Abbeville hospital.
This also makes it possible to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations and to ensure continuity of follow-up by the same doctors, which was previously lacking between short and long-stay services, for example.
Interns in the Bay of Somme
Finally, this marriage will allow the sites of the Baie de Somme to accommodate interns, something impossible for a local hospital like that of Saint-Valery. “It is certainly not identified as a training place”, concedes Corinne Séneschal.
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