This will be the big piece of this year 2023. The hospital center of Brive (Corrèze) will tackle in the coming days the last part of the restructuring work of its emergencies. The stakes are high for the service.
Sized to receive 20,000 patients per year, the emergency department welcomed 40,524 in 2022, an average of 110 passages per day with even a peak of 160 in December. “And of this total, 11,411 passages resulted in hospitalization”, specifies François Gauthiez, the director of the establishment.
What will be done in 2023
The hospital will tackle the renovation “of the psychiatric care sector. He will be repositioned within the emergency reception service with two isolation rooms, ”explains the director, in accordance with the recommendations of the High Health Authority.
The work will also allow the complete overhaul of the treatment room, the renovation and modernization of the shock boxes and the reconfiguration of the long circuit sector to allow continuous monitoring of patients “with a target of zero patients on stretchers in the circulations” . This last phase should be completed in January 2024.
Investment. The amount of all the work amounts to 4 million euros to which are added 400,000 euros of equipment.
What has already been done in 2022
This second phase of work, which was spread over the whole year, was delivered last Friday. It has enabled the establishment of a new short circuit (for patients whose condition is considered medically less serious) with a pediatric sector and the complete reorganization of reception with dedicated circuits for “lying” patients and “standing” patients ”.
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What had been done in 2021
This first phase, operational since June 2022, has made it possible to fit out a rest room and a common office for all staff, new changing rooms and a storage part: “a part not visible to the public, but which has its importance for the personnel”, emphasizes François Gauthiez.
The challenge. It is of course to allow better patient care, but also – because everything is linked – to keep doctors in place and attract new ones. At present, with 12 full-time equivalents filled out of an ideal workforce estimated at 23, the service is far from the mark. “Emergencies are part of the two departments in great difficulty with adult psychiatry, recalls Dr. André Sommabère, president of the establishment medical commission (CME). We have already experienced a similar situation, a few years ago and a team was reconstituted. We hope that this time again it will only be temporary. »
Michael Nicholas
