The hospital center now has 350 beds. After recruiting around forty nurses in 2022, the establishment opened thirty-one beds at the start of the year: five in surgery, twelve for neurology and fourteen for the post-emergency medicine service.
All this to cope with the growing activity of emergencies and reduce the waiting time for patients who must be hospitalized. “We had closed 14 before Christmas due to lack of staff. Our real objective is to keep these new beds open all year round”recognizes the director of the hospital, Bastien Ripert.
Another fifteen nurses to be recruited
“We are opening beds but the staff is in a tense flow. It remains complicated to take leave, the RTTs can be canceled at the last moment… by dint of over-soliciting the agents, their health is impacted and we can fear work stoppages” , warns Céline Defontaine, secretary for the CGT union at the hospital center.
Bastien Ripert confirms that about fifteen nurses are missing for 2023, but that did not prevent the regional health agency (ARS) from authorizing these openings. However, the director of the hospital explains that the nurses are in a strong position. “There is a shortage of qualified personnel. So, as soon as a person sends us a CV, he is recruited with advantageous conditions”, he argues. Céline Defontaine talks about too low salaries and a lack of listening to assignment wishes.
“The management of the hospital primarily fills the gaps in Ehpad. The agents find themselves in services in tension, which are not necessarily their choice or which do not correspond to their profile. The hospital sells a landscape of beach and palm trees to recruit, but you still have to have the means and the time to take advantage of it”, she says. A somewhat chipped postcard.
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