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It is a snake that bites its own tail. With prolonged hospitalization, bed shortages impact on emergencies. A service that itself avoids prolonging the stay of older people. Co-Responsible for Emergencies at Wendy Hospital Center, Dr. Valerie Debier takes stock.
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Valerie Debier, co-responsible for emergencies at Wendy’s Hospital Center. | Photo provided by CHD
Western France
Collected by Claire Haubry.
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It is the management of the Vendee Divisional Hospital Center itself that is sounding the alarm. Emergency services offer pick-up times “Especially important, due to lack of availability of sufficient beds in the downstream sector”, explained a press release issued mid-week. Co-Responsible for Emergency/Samu/Smur at Wendy’s Hospital Center, Dr. Valerie Debier sighed: “Due to lack of space, in the emergency room of La Roche-sur-Yon, we recently kept a patient for over forty-eight hours. We even reached a stay of about four days for one patient. »(1)
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