The number two in the sector is splashed by revelations about the methods of its rival Orpea.
Do everything to stay away from scandal. Last week, Orpea’s rivals tried to create a sanitary cordon around the French Ehpad giant, accused of abuse and illegal financial practices by The Gravediggers. “Even if the accusations in the book were only 25% true, they would demonstrate the existence of an indefensible system of steering the Orpea group by costs, which leads to suffering at work and the mistreatment of residents, let go of the leader of another private network of Ehpad. There would be a black sheep in the area. She would then be denounced. So much the better.”
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The system describesis the opposite of what other players in the sector do on a daily basis“, had hammered Sophie Boissard, CEO of Korian. Private retirement homes have nonothing to hide“, insisted the Synerpa, main union of private nursing homes, recognizing the”need to urgently review control systems“.
Several heavyweights in the sector have…