Access to the Beaune hospital’s emergency room has been modernized and security reinforced. “The ergonomics of the various offices have been redesigned,” added Mayor Alain Suguenot during the inauguration, this Wednesday, May 31.
The emergencies of the Philippe le Bon hospital center in Beaune now have a brand new reception. An investment of 220,000 euros made it possible to review the configuration and security of the space with the objective, according to the Hospices Civils de Beaune, of “improving patient comfort and the quality of life at work. [du] personnel»
The new premises were inaugurated this Wednesday, May 31, 2023, by Alain Suguenot (LR), mayor of Beaune and chairman of the supervisory board of the health establishment, and Myriel Porteous, sub-prefect of Beaune.
While some hospitals in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté are forced to temporarily introduce strict regulation of patient access to emergencies by Center 15, the Philippe le Bon hospital provides 24-hour reception, all day long. year, “without appointment, without selection”, as the management points out.
After the health crisis, “rethinking office ergonomics”
“The staff who are here are everyday heroes”, underlines Alain Suguenot who has “a thought” for the nurse killed, on May 23, during a knife attack at the Reims University Hospital.
“Our staff deserve a lot of attention,” insists the mayor of Beaune, thinking of the safety and comfort of caregivers.
“Following the observation made during the pandemic to separate emergencies from people who could be contagious”, the supervisory board and management have redesigned “the ergonomics of the different offices”, explains Alain Suguenot.
“We are turning the page on the Covid period”, welcomes Magali Vernet, president of the establishment medical commission. “The redevelopment of our emergency department reaffirms the place of the hospital in the city of Beaune and our commitment to welcoming patients who need care and accommodation.”
“A significant impact on the quality of care and working conditions”
“Daily investments are made to help with current investment in operations which have a significant impact on both the quality of care and working conditions”, explains Marie-Catherine Moraillon, deputy director of the Hospices Civil de Beaune. and acting director of the Philippe le Bon Hospital.
Carried out on an occupied site between December 2022 and March 2023, the works cost 220,000 euros, including nearly 127,000 euros financed by the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regional health agency under the health modernization and investment fund thanks to the plans French and European recovery.
“The security of the premises has been reinforced”
The principle of “moving forward” was retained for “better management of flows”, notes Marie-Catherine Moraillon, in order to “offer patients an appropriate care circuit, while respecting their rights during reception, waiting and their examinations in the emergency room”.
In addition, “the security of the premises has been reinforced with restricted night access, access openings with badges and a silent security alarm.”
Securing also includes the on-call medical center adjacent to the emergency department.
The news
Among the new features: installation of sliding doors in the airlock for emergency vehicles, creation of a lying waiting area and a complementary valid waiting area, extension of the office of the reception nurse organizer (IOA ) to allow the passage of a stretcher from the waiting area to the emergency room, installation of a window overlooking the emergency vehicle airlock from the IOA office, extension of the doctors’ office accessible from the waiting area and the Emergency circulation, accessibility of the secretariat office from the waiting area and setting up of a reception desk.
For this, the storage and archiving areas were moved outside the emergency department.
“The reception nurse has a visual on the pedestrian admission and the patient admission lying down”
“It is an improvement in the surface for the reception of patients, it does not change anything for the rest of the service”, specifies Doctor Sophie Canel, emergency doctor and head of the emergency department since 2018. “For the wait and the work of the reception staff – who is a secretary, a nurse or a reception nurse and seven practitioners – it was necessary.”
“The reception nurse has a central regulatory role, a bit like a medical regulator in the SAMU, [elle] must have the visual on the whole service. It starts with the entrance. It has a visual on pedestrian admission and patient admission lying in the emergency room. If we see that there are needs, we let go of what we’re doing and we go to help immediately in the airlock. It can happen that patients directly walk through the doors or that a patient needs urgent care in his vehicle, ”explains the doctor.
A future construction to replace the “blue building”
Other works are announced at the Philippe le Bon hospital. On a whole different scale this time. After the “new hospital” or “yellow and green building”, equipped with an operating theater and medical imaging, a new building will be built to replace the “blue building”, inaugurated in 1971, a pilot site in its time.
Located behind the emergency room, in direct proximity to the operating theatre, the future construction will include single-bed rooms.
The Hospices Civils de Beaune estimate the cost of the work at 70 million euros, without State participation. “We hope that there will be good sales of wines and many visitors to the Hôtel-Dieu to continue to work and have a quality hospital in Beaune”, slips Alain Suguenot.
Choice of the architectural project from three candidates on June 27, start of work in September for delivery scheduled for the end of 2026 before the deconstruction of the “blue building”.
Jean-Christophe Tardivon
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