The closure of the emergency room at the Ormeau clinic at the start of the summer resulted in an imbalance in the supply of care. But the hospital and the clinic are working together to cushion the crisis.
When the situation is serious, with no immediate outcome, you have to know how to be creative. “Of course, the closure of our emergency department has an impact on the overall healthcare offer,” admits Cyril Dufourcq, director of the Ormeau clinic, while stressing that “the service was not closed because of us, but because of a staff shortage, which is not specific to Tarbes, but to the whole territory. ” This closure was to be only temporary, roughly the summer period, which made it possible to keep the emergency department of the Bagnères hospital open, thanks to the “transfer” of the 3 emergency doctors from Ormeau to the capital of Haute -Bigorre.
But today, while the pressure is less sensitive in Bagnères, could the emergency department of Ormeau reopen? “Not for the moment, the problem remains the same: to find emergency doctors, but the shortage is national. So here, we are trying to find solutions, between the public and the private, to overcome the crisis, as we saw this And there, in consultation with the ARS, the CPAM, and the Council of the Order, which approved our approach, we proposed, with Christophe Bouriat, the director of the hospital, to open consultations of day on the Ormeau-Center site, in order to relieve the emergency department of the hospital, by relieving it of acts that do not strictly relate to pure emergencies. This will help relieve our colleagues. “
This consultation, provided by the clinic’s three emergency physicians, opens today, every day from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. “Of course, if a patient presents symptoms justifying an admission to the hospital emergency room, he will be immediately redirected. This solution may be imperfect, but the fact of coordinating us to offer a wider range of care in a situation of crisis, it is rather coherent. Contrary to what some think and even say, we do not think only of making money. Our desire is to offer a global quality care offer, and yes, we are looking to recruit, so that we can reopen our emergencies and other services where we are short of staff. ” So much so that the clinic is organizing a job dating on September 24 to attract new vocations. This is to say if the shortage is real …
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