It is presented as a response to the needs of the most precarious patients. A new service, inaugurated by the mayor (DG) Patrick Jarry is developing within the Nanterre hospital (Hauts-de-Seine). Its name: the LAM, for medical care beds. A service open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year dedicated to the poorest people suffering from serious, chronic, irreversible pathologies incompatible with life on the street.
This new service – which relies on a team of doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, caregivers, social workers and specialized educators – is placed under the responsibility of the Public Health-Social Medicine Center of the Nanterre Hospital. It is made up of 23 single rooms and one double room, all equipped with sanitary facilities and a bathroom.
Rooms accessible to the most precarious therefore, but which patients will not be able to invest with a simple snap of their fingers. “Admission is studied by an admissions committee, specifies the establishment in a press release. Throughout his journey, the user is followed by a social worker from the structure. The latter carries out all the necessary actions aimed at regularizing his situation if necessary and preparing for his departure to a medico-social service under common law. »
The neighborhood associations also involved
If the allocation of a room depends on an admissions committee, the establishment has on the other hand made the choice not to ask anything from the people accommodated, in order to “preserve their limited resources”. Health insurance credits, paid in the form of a global grant calculated instead, finance this new service, an integral part of the joint medical project of the Nanterre hospital and that of Moisselles (Val-d’Oise) , validated at the end of 2021.
The two establishments have undertaken in-depth restructuring, with the credits allocated within the framework of the Ségur de la santé. In addition to a new organization of care, establishments are developing medical collaborations. Thus the LAM will be used for training and hopes to establish itself as an essential step in the curriculum of future professionals.
“It will constitute a training ground recognized by the regional institutes of social work, training in nursing care and training of caregivers, and proposes to be a place of reception of interns in general medicine” specifies the Nanterre hospital.
The new service, which places the establishment a little more firmly in its tradition of welcoming the most vulnerable populations, finally plans to collaborate with the associative fabric, which is very active within the Petit Nanterre district, particularly on the training side. of literacy.
