Third scanner, emergencies, rehabilitation center… what awaits the Bagnols-sur-Cèze hospital in 2024

The director of the hospital Jean-Philippe Sajus, the mayor of Bagnols, Jean-Yves Chapelet, and the president of the CME (establishment medical commission) Pierre Kovalevsky, Thursday January 18 at the presentation of wishes. C.B.

During his greetings, Thursday January 18, the director of the Bagnols-sur-Cèze hospital spoke of the difficulties and projects of the hospital center.

"At the end of 2024, the Bagnols hospital will have a third scanner" announced Thursday, January 18, during the presentation of his wishes, the director of the Bagnols-sur-Cèze hospital center Jean-Philippe Sajus, who took the opportunity to take stock of the past year and recall the difficulties crossed by a hospital which will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year.

Starting with the necessary regulation of emergencies, currently several nights per week, due to lack of sufficient medical staff. "The application of the Rist law (law improving access to care through trust in health professionals which notably caps the income of temporary doctors) has put us in difficulty. We found ourselves helpless in the emergency room and in pediatrics. explains Jean-Philippe Sajus. To deal with this lack of emergency doctors,  "the director of the ARS (regional health agency) asked us to set a course to create a territorial emergency medical team" in partnership with the Nîmes University Hospital and the Alès hospital.

"The emergency rooms and maternity ward are not closed!"

"Regulation affects 57% of French hospitals" underlined Dr Pierre Kovalevsky, president of the establishment medical commission, while specifying that "all emergencies are insured”.  "Emergencies are regulated, that is to say filtered. People have to go through the 15th. But they are not closed! And the maternity ward is not closed! " insisted Jean-Philippe Sajus. A regulation of emergencies  which is concomitant with the decrease in the number of doctors in the Rhone Gard territory, with for example no more doctors in the town of Pont-Saint-Esprit and the retirement of doctors in Bagnols in a near future.

Good news, however for emergencies, the launch of renovation work is planned for the second half of this year for a budget of 6 million euros. "This should improve the care of our patients. Current emergencies had been planned for 20,000 visits, today we are at 30,000" said the director. 

The rehabilitation center taken over by the hospital

Another crisis subject "the disengagement of the private sector from the Gard Rhone rehabilitation center",  resulting from a partnership between the Bagnols hospital and the Clinipole group, he pointed out. "At the end of July, we learned that the rehabilitation center would leave on December 31" confirmed the mayor of Bagnols who is also president of the hospital supervisory board. "We have organized the continuity of the service in the current clinic building, the ARS (regional health agency) is supporting us for operation with a budget of 4 million euros" ; explains the director of the hospital while announcing that a new building will be built within "three or four years" on a site to be defined,  "the current premises being dilapidated". The priority being to "recover the 53 professionals from the clinic". 

Jean-Yves Chapelet recalled that "two challenges must be met for the hospital: an increase of 200 inhabitants and the influx of population with Marcoule 2, the arrival of a small nuclear reactor. So many new patients who will come to Bagnols hospital. "The hospital will always be there!" he reassured.

Coordination platform, training, geriatrics…

Last September, a coordination and guidance platform for Gard was created, of which the Bagnols hospital is responsible in partnership with the Nîmes University Hospital, intended for the care of children aged 0 at 6 years old suffering from communication disorders.

On the training side, ten additional places were created at the IFMS (health professions training institute) in 2023, bringing the capacity of the institute to 70 places . An IFMS branch was created in Pont-Saint-Esprit last March to train caregivers with a capacity of 20 places. "Many paramedical staff have chosen to stay in Bagnols or Pont, in the hospital or in a retirement home" the hospital director is satisfied. "We were able to replace the staff". 

To cope with the care of the aging population, the hospital opened ten additional beds for short stays in geriatrics, "to free up emergencies".& ;nbsp;

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