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A former leader, having spent ten years within the Orpea group, delivers a damning testimony of the system seen from the inside. He denounces an industrial process to reduce costs as much as possible.
Patrick Métais is one of the former senior executives at Orpea. For ten years he worked to expand the clinical part of the group. He decided to come out of the shadows and give his testimony, in particular in the investigation of the book “Les Fossoyeurs”, dealing with abuse in nursing homes. According to him, Orpea’s policy is clear: “earn the most money by spending the least”. At Orpea “The human is not the subject, and the approach is industrial. Profitability, how is it possible in the care and management of sick people?he asks himself.
It also confirms the dietary deficiencies revealed in some of the Orpea residents because these are decisions taken by management to increase profitability. Only four euros a day are planned to feed each resident, when families spend between 6,000 and 10,000 euros in the residence. Patrick Métais also expresses remorse and guilt for having participated in this system. “I admit I only realized it after the fact, which is terrible”he confides.