After three years of covid, the wishes of the hospital center have resumed their rights. Despite the shortage of doctors, nursing staff and budgetary uncertainties, the Montauban hospital center is coping.
Covid obliges, it has been three years since the traditional ceremony of wishes at the hospital center had no longer taken place. This means that in three years, the establishment has undergone many changes and is teeming with projects that Jérôme Roustan was pleased to detail, the first to speak this Tuesday afternoon in his capacity as chairman of the commission. establishment medical.
“These three years have strained the healthcare world with a never-ending day of crisis. 80% of the covid activity was provided by the public hospital and the caregivers adapted in particular to separate the covid and non-covid sectors. »
The president of the CME spoke of the shortage of doctors, the increased activity due to the cessation of maternity at the Pont-de-Chaume clinic and the patients of Cahors forced to come to Montauban for pulmonology consultations, without forgetting the new organization of the emergency department. And to ask to “redefine the organization of care offers in the department and beyond. »
We have unblocked old projects, in particular the new nursing home and the move of psychiatry to Capou.
It was also a first for Sébastien Massip, who arrived in 2021 at the head of the establishment. “In twenty months, we had to carry out a diagnostic phase quickly followed by an implementation phase. The hospital no longer invested enough and was faced with very strong constraints in terms of recruitment, architecture and assets and financing, knowing that it is essential to regain financial stability. »
An establishment project with 86 projects
In the recently presented establishment project, 86 projects are developed, some of which are more emblematic than the others. “We have released a few old projects, in particular the construction of a new Ehpad during the first half of 2026 or the relocation of psychiatric units to Capou from July 1, 2023”, underlines the director.
Jumbled up, Sébastien Massip mentioned the creation of a sexual health center, an external biological sampling unit, new mammography equipment and the reactivation of partnerships with the Moissac hospital with dermatology consultations from this year. Hence this measured satisfaction. “The establishment held on, it coped despite strong pressure on bed management, despite absenteeism and the risks of budgetary instability. We have never been faced with so many uncertainties…”
Sébastien Massip expressed several wishes: “Not to add financial instability to help the hospital to invest in 2023 and in the coming years, but also to forge links with the environment of the establishment, in particular to define a strategic organization with city medicine. »
The establishment took courageous decisions, in particular for the reorganization of the emergency department, an innovation which has since been followed by other departments.
President of the monitoring committee of the hospital center, Brigitte Barèges wanted to be complimentary. “The hospital is the beating heart of our city and our department. We are always asking for more money from the ARS, but we will have to manage the intermediate phase before the construction of the new hospital. The establishment took courageous decisions, in particular for the reorganization of the emergency department, an innovation which has since been followed by other departments. With a valiant heart, nothing is impossible, but at some point you get tired…”
