A report made public Wednesday, July 13, recommends limiting the share of lucrative private establishments and highlights the need for a great age law, to support the aging of the population.
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Faced with the controversy arouses the Orpea scandal, the government response is not up to the task, criticizes the Senate in a report on Wednesday, July 13. The senatorial commission of inquiry devoted to the “control of controls” of public accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (EHPAD) proposes to scrutinize the financial mechanisms of trade groups and to take legislative measures to slow down the progress of the lucrative sector .
In January, Victor Castanet’s book, Fossoyeurs (Fayard, 400 pages, 22.90 euros) revealed the economies generating mistreatment and fraud to public money from Orpea, as well as a feeling of ‘Impunity of its leaders, favored by the deficiency of controls carried out by regional health agencies (ARS) and the departmental councils, the two guardianships which have authority in the sector.
In February, the government reacted by launching an all -round inspection campaign. “The 7,500 EHPAD will all be checked within two years thanks to the strengthening of ARS resources,” said on Wednesday before the Senate, Jean-Christophe Combe, the new Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy, and Persons Disabled. The number of controlled nursing homes was less than 700, each year, between 2014 and 2019.
“Check” headquarters
Anxious to appear as intractable, the Senate social affairs committee has changed, in February, in the committee of inquiry. She thus held around fifty actors under oath (professionals, trade unionists, civil servants, etc.). The report submitted by its two rapporteurs – Bernard Bonne, Senator (Les Républicains) de la Loire and Michelle Meunier, senator (socialist group, ecologist and republican) of Loire -Atlantique – opens sites that go beyond the “shock of transparency “wanted by the government.
Rather than inspecting each establishment whatever their status, it is a question of targeting, they say, the trade groups. “We talked a lot of Orpea, but there is a lot to review at all other lucrative private groups, underlines Mr. Bonne. If their system is not as organized as that of Orpea, this deserves to ‘Landing on the way in which they proceed in the management of public funds assigned to them. “Lucrative private nursing homes total 22 % of establishments in France. About fifteen commercial groups are shared most of this park.
The ARS have, in fact, already controlled commercial nursing homes since February. In Ile-de-France, 71 % of the 101 establishments controlled since the release of gravediggers belong to the private private sector, which represents 48 % of the offer on this territory.
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