“It’s untenable”: unclogging the emergency rooms at Versailles hospital, a real headache

2024-02-07T05:32:49.503Z

Highlights: The emergency rooms of the Versailles hospital center (CHV), with 90,000 visits per year, are on the verge of collapse. The reasons: lack of staff, lack of downstream beds in the face of large flows requiring hospitalization and patients who are still numerous, but also aging. Patients on stretchers piled up for several hours or even days in a corridor, patients at the end of their nerves and exhausted nursing staff no longer knowing where to turn. To try to cope with the overflow, Mignot hospital is adding more beds.

Overwhelmed doctors, disoriented patients, the emergency department of Mignot hospital is on the verge of saturation. To try to cope