The MGEN post-care and rehabilitation center in La Menaudière managed to provide care for its patients throughout the confinement period. With sometimes the means at hand but without consequences on the quality of care.
“Our patients found themselves deprived of collective sessions and, for some, in fear of a break in care…” At La Menaudière, a post-care and rehabilitation center of MGEN, a mutual Groupe VYV, confinement presented a major risk, that of seeing the link between the establishment and its confined patients loosened. Elderly people, victims of locomotor disorders, cancer patients, obese people are regularly accompanied here in full hospitalization or day hospitalization.
“Some were in great pain, physical and psychological, explains Jean Villette, the deputy director, we have for example a patient who had his hand severed and who does not have access to a liberal physiotherapist, obese people who have everything were announced as a risk category for Covid-19, we had to find a way to continue to follow them remotely”.
Helping every patient
This means is telerehabilitation, fortunately already launched at La Menaudière, which has ensured the maintenance of care. But we had to adapt. “Our organization allows us to take care of the patient with a kind of technical platform which can bring together different health professionals, doctors, physiotherapists, psychologists, occupational therapists who intervene in turn”, specifies Jean Villette. So the whole team mobilized to find the means to help each patient remotely.
An alternative to rehabilitation care
“We had to imagine everything that could replace rehabilitation tools for our confined patients, we used everything they had on hand, chairs, brooms, so that they had what they needed. to carry out their exercises”, says the managing director. And it worked. Twenty regular patients were able to follow their rehabilitation course during confinement and the establishment even managed to take care of new ones.
To the point that the experiment will continue. “Some can even follow their sessions from their place of work, during a break”, explains Jean Villette who sees in this remote care “an alternative to rehabilitation care”. “We are proud of ourselves, this mode of operation leads to results equivalent to those obtained within the establishment”, he assures, concluding: “We have invented something!”.
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