After "Les Fossoyeurs", the profiteers.
While a book by journalist Victor Castanet questioned the management of nursing homes managed by the Orpea group, at the same time, Élise Lucet's teams had been working for more than a year on two other French heavyweights in the sector, Korian and DomusVi .
The investigation, broadcast this Tuesday March 1 at 9:10 p.m., on France 2 ice and revolt.
Korian?
Lots of things are happening with the French leader, 24,500 beds across France and a flashy façade.
Reality ?
A journalist from “Cash investigation” was able to get hired without the slightest diploma or skill as a temporary carer in a Korian establishment.
And investigated on hidden camera.
Sentence heard, intended for an elderly lady: “There, we are understaffed, so you pee in the protection, okay?
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In the absence of time, in the toilet, we retract legs and back, we must respect the timing.
"It's not dogs", recognizes a nurse, disgusted.
From her earliest days, the journalist/caregiver is asked to distribute the string of drugs to patients, at the risk of making mistakes.
Savings on the backs of families
The worst is the food.
To maintain the margins, it is 5 euros per day and per resident.
On Grandmother's Day, "onion soup with croutons" is served without croutons: no small profit.
Two testimonials from former directors and internal documents show that a “Flop 5” and “Flop 60” award a dunce cap to nursing homes who do not respect these savings on the backs of families spending 2,900 euros per month for their relative.
Questioned, the French director of Korian struggles to defend himself: KO in the ring.
The company receives more than 300 million per year from the Secu to pay a staff on which the group prefers to cut back, in order to take care of its margins on the Stock Exchange…
At DomusVi, another juggernaut in the sector, the scheme is different, staggering, reveals “Cash Investigation”: the group finances establishments via a multitude of small owners, never does any work, then moves when the rooms become slums.
“We got ripped off,” accuse several buyers, of four bedrooms for 400,000 euros – for example – who have lost almost all their value since their acquisition.