Frédéric Valletoux, hospital voice and public EHPAD, advocates the imposition of “common rules to the public and private sectors, after revelations on ORPEA Group’s practices in some of its retirement homes.
Le Monde with AFP
The publication This week of the Book Explosive Survey The graves, which denounces the practices of the private group ORPEA within retirement homes that it manages, caused a shock wave in France, aroused multiple indignant reactions.
In an interview at Journal of Sunday of January 30 , Frédéric Valletoux, the President of the Hospital Federation of France (FHP) Declares a “serious” supervision of private group activities in the EHPAD sector.
In graves, the independent journalist Victor Castanet, describes a system where hygiene care, medical care, or even meals of residents are “rationed” to improve the profitability of ORPEA. And then, while stays are charged at a strong price.
“Go for money on the stock market is not an offense. But dependency is not a business like the others”, advance the boss of the FHP which brings together public health facilities (hospitals) and Medico-social structures (retirement homes), almost all institutions in the public sector.
“I am not to” kill “the private but we must seriously supervise its activities. And ask ourselves on the legal status of publicly funded companies and carrying out missions of general interest”, develops -to it.
Exemptions of social charges for the private sector
Frédéric Valletoux advocates the imposition of “rules common to both sectors, public and private lucrative. Private companies enjoy exemptions of social charges, “but not us,” he says. “What’s most out? I do not know. Today, a public EHPAD has 1,000 euros more than residence per month than a private EHPAD. Conversely, we are more controlled “He adds.
It is “not favorable” to the nationalization of private sector actors, an operation that would cost “€ 15 billion”, according to him. “But from the moment these groups receive public funding, they must be subjected to conventional rules of transparency and quality”.
Orpea’s leaders, whose stock prices fell after the publication of the book, dispute the facts reported in the book of Victor Castanet, qualifying “misleading, outrageous and detrimental” accusations. The Director General Jean-Christophe Romersi is summoned Tuesday morning at the Minister responsible for the autonomy of the elderly, Brigitte Bourguignon, to “answer” to “serious charges” concerning the practices of the group.