“It would be calamitous if, following the publication of Victor Castanet’s book, we threw the baby out with the bathwater,” said the boss of the Korian group of retirement homes, Sophie Boissard, for whom the book ” targets the system of a particular company”, which cannot be extrapolated to all the others.
The boss of the Korian group of retirement homes, Sophie Boissard, defended private nursing homes on Monday, asking the State for a financial effort and a definition of the standards for monitoring establishments, in an interview with Les Échos. “Our system cannot do without private nursing homes,” said the general manager of Korian, whose title fell on the stock market last week in the wake of that of Orpea, implicated in a book. “It would be calamitous if, following the publication of Victor Castanet’s book, The Gravediggerswe throw the baby out with the bathwater”, said Sophie Boissard, for whom the work “targets the system of a particular company”, which cannot be extrapolated to all the others.
A lack of public funding
She estimated that the sector suffers from a lack of public funding, with in the case of Korian an average allocation for care and dependency of 60 euros per patient and per day. It is “effectively insufficient with regard to the needs of high dependency” for Sophie Boissard, who compares for the Netherlands an endowment of 200 euros. “The whole sector suffers from the absence of a system of enforceable and controlled quality standards”, also noted the boss of Korian, judging that “the public authorities must define these standards”.
A “quasi-finalized” quality reference system
A quality reference would be “quasi-finalized” by the High Authority for Health, she continued, citing two obstacles to its release, concerning public and associative establishments on the one hand, and those in charge of disability. on the other hand. The general manager of Korian also asked “solemnly” to Élise Lucet, presenter of the show Cash Investigation, the communication “in the interest of families and residents” of the revelations promised in an ongoing investigation by the magazine into private nursing homes. The editor-in-chief of Cash Investigation offered an interview to Korian’s management to discuss these issues, but refused the group’s request that it be held “live and on set”.