The merger of the Montenay nursing home, in Mayenne, and the Ernée hospital center, recorded by the Regional Health Agency on September 7, was presented this Friday at the Ernée hospital. The goal is above all to make Montenay a “pilot” site for the hospital and then for the whole territory hope direction. This merger will be effective on January 1, 2023.
“For the Ernée hospital, it is having these 26 beds which will be located in a pilot establishment which will allow us to set up new and innovative technologies, to evaluate them, before distributing them in a radius a little wider like the establishment of Ernée”, explains Gérard Guingouin, “and for Montenay, the advantage is to be attached to a support establishment that can assist the structure in expertise missions for which establishments of this size could not benefit before”. Win-win somehow.
– Alexandre Fremont
Smartphones, patient software and a renovation of some rooms
The Ehpad will keep its 24 beds and will be equipped in particular, from January 1, 2023, smartphones to manage residents. “There, we are going to move into the 21st century!”, quips Gérard Guingouin, director of CH Ernée and the Montenay nursing home, “we are going to replace conventional telephones, which are very limited in their use, with smartphones which will allow us, thanks to QR codes, to have real libraries for professionals who will be able to have their professional documents on their devices, they will also be able to communicate between them by sms and who will also be able to have access to the telephone numbers of the families of residents to warn them of anything”, he explains. There will also be a new computerized patient software which will be installed (Sillage software) or a modernization of eight double bedrooms, which will increase from eight double rooms to sixteen single rooms.
– Alexandre Fremont
A total of 338 beds after merger
In addition to smartphones, the Ehpad will be able to benefit from a installation control software, that is to say that energy or waste will be controlled and managed from Ernée. Finally, new equipment will be installed in Montenay for the comfort of residents and caregivers.
The reception capacity of the structure, after the merger, will therefore amount to 338 beds and places and therefore the Montenay Ehpad will indeed keep its 26 seats for its residents.
“This marriage with Ernée is a good thing”, rejoices Gervais Hameau, mayor of Montenay and thanks the department for having seen “assets” of his municipality and the Ehpad, knowing that this structure had to be closed without an innovative solution. So the solution has been found. Total investment cost between 200,000 and 250,000 euros.