The French Hospital Federation wants a moratorium on the reform of the financing of retirement homes. Jobs would be threatened.
Public retirement homes would be in danger, warns the French Hospital Federation (FHF). On the occasion of the day of solidarity, the organization renewed its concern about the reform of the pricing of these establishments put in place by the previous government. She is calling for a moratorium.
Applied since 1er Last January, this text would cut the budget of public accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (Ehpad) by 200 million euros, according to the FHF. At issue: the new calculation method does not take into account the level of dependency of residents and the specific context of each structure.
Threat to the most vulnerable
“Wanting to be fairer through a so-called” objective “equation, this new calculation method actually masks significant disparities between establishments and between departments”, explains the FHF in its press release. The latter fears that the departmental councils distribute an average budget among all nursing homes without taking into account the specificities of each. “It is the most modest dependent elderly people who are affected”, assures the FHF.
In fact, just like the public hospital, the public retirement homes are intended to accommodate the elderly regardless of their degree of dependence and illness, but also regardless of their financial resources. And indeed, the seniors supported in these structures have lower incomes than those residing in private nursing homes (1,307 euros against 1,758 on average).
Less staff
This drop in funding for public nursing homes would result in a reduction in the number of medical staff. In the retirement home of the Bourges (Cher) hospital center which accommodates 129 residents, the reform would lead to the loss of 9 nursing assistant jobs, or half of the workforce, warns the FHF. In Ancy-le-Franc (Yonne), the establishment would lose the equivalent of 5 people.
Night workers could also be fewer in number, and psychologists less often present in the structures.
“This inextricable situation as it stands gives the impression of a refusal to really take up the issue of the loss of autonomy and its financing”, denounces the FHF, which calls for a moratorium on this reform.
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