The geriatric day hospital of the Jacques-Cœur hospital in Bourges is moving and is struggling to find new premises. Although the hospital management has found a fallback location, after the lack of consensus on the first choice, the CGT is once again referring to an “incomprehensible” choice.
In a memo dated July 3, the management of the Jacques-Cœur hospital transmitted its project to reorganize the geriatrics department. The cause was the departure of two doctors from the acute geriatric medicine (MAG) department in June. This project announced the move of the geriatric day hospital, relaunched at the end of 2023 after several years of closure, to its former premises. “A danger to patients” denounced the CFDT and CGT at the end of August, which forced the management to “suspend this project”. A social and economic committee (CSE) is to be held on October 3 to “take stock of the changes at the end of 2023”, assures the hospital director, Rémi Fauquembergue. “This is not a decisive activity for the entire geriatric sector”, he continues. An assessment that will allow us to know what to do next for this geriatric day hospital.
The move of the Bourges geriatric day hospital will ultimately not take place in the planned premises
Towards an outcome on October 3?
Pending this CSE, the geriatric day hospital has moved to the former premises of the MAG service. The majority union, the CFDT, is satisfied with having obtained “that patients are safe, with access to fluids (especially oxygen, Editor’s note) “. The CGT does not share the same opinion. It claims to have presented a viable and sustainable fallback solution for this location, in place of the quality management. “We found an appropriate service for patients that would facilitate the work of doctors and we are told that we will discuss it in three weeks, Armelle Paris, secretary of the CGT union of Jacques-Cœur, was surprised on Monday, September 9. It is incomprehensible.” “The beds are makeshift straw mattresses,” says a professional from the service. The treatment room is too far away, we may not hear the patients.”
Rémi Fauquembergue indicates that, “like other hypotheses, this solution will be studied on October 3.”
Matis Rapacioli
