A beginning of mea culpa. The CEO of Orpea, Philippe Charrier, says in an interview with Sunday newspaper, Sunday May 8, that the group has “sin of lack of rigor”. The company is due to present its results on Friday May 12 and is organizing an open house operation from mid-May to try to reassure about its practices. “The time has come to build the new Orpea, in transparency”assures the CEO.
“This is why we are launching the ‘General Assembly of Orpea’, the idea being to open, between May 13 and June 11, the doors of our nursing homes to families of residents, elected officials, associations, journalists and all citizens interested in the issue of old age., he says. The first conclusions of the two external audits carried out by the group point to flaws in the care of patients.
“Reporting of serious adverse events related to care, in particular, was too slow; there may have been omissions”recognize Philip Spoof. The audits also show the existence of year-end discounts from suppliers of publicly funded products. “Orpea sinned by lack of rigor. Today, we know, so we correct”assures Philippe Charrier.
To fight against understaffing, the group, which will present its annual results on Friday, will “now pay overtime, study the possibility of offering better mutual insurance” has his “employees, facilitate their career development and status changes”, he continues. The private group recently filed a complaint against X for misuse of corporate assets.
This “complaint against unnamed persons” covered “past facts and operations – unrelated to the conditions of reception and care of residents – likely to raise questions with regard to the social interest of Orpea and discovered following internal investigations”, had explained the group at the beginning of May. The group has been under fire from critics since the publication of the investigative book at the end of January The Gravediggers.
A report commissioned by the government pointed to serious dysfunctions in early April. And the group has been the subject of a judicial inquiry since the end of April, opened in Nanterre, on suspicion of institutional mistreatment or financial offences.