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“We discovered it because of the smell”, confides a caregiver. In a note sent in October to the regional health agency (ARS) of Ile-de-France, Mme L., daughter of a resident of the Ehpad La Tournelle, an establishment of the Emera group located in La Garenne-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), wrote succinctly: “October 4: Left alone, locked for twenty-four hours in her locked room. » Suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, his mother was left alone for a day in her locked room by the staff, who “thought she was hospitalized”. And “oblivion” Who “has not been brought to the attention” of Emera’s management. No more than the ten incidents recorded in M’s reportme L. at the ARS: theft of clothes, dirty room, toilet not carried out… The group nevertheless assures to consider “with the greatest interest any claim or complaint made by families and residents”.
The case is far from isolated. In August 2022, a resident of an Emera Ile-de-France nursing home suffered a diabetic coma following an insulin administration error. More recently, on August 26, a resident of the Sophie nursing home, located in Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes), threw herself out of the window. “She was a lady who was at the end of her, testifies a caregiver from the establishment. She kept saying she wasn’t well, but nothing was done. » The Grasse public prosecutor’s office, contacted, concluded that it was a suicide and is preparing to close the investigation. On September 5, a resident of the La Tournelle nursing home died from dehydration. On September 29, an 83-year-old man, a resident of another group nursing home in Châteauneuf-Grasse, escaped the vigilance of staff and disappeared. His lifeless body was found a few days later.
On October 3, Alice Béranger filed a complaint for the mistreatment suffered, according to her, by her grandmother, a resident of the Douceur de France nursing home, in Gradignan (Gironde), also managed by the Emera group. From, “around ten complaints” have followed one another once morest establishments of the group in France, assures Me Farge, counsel for several plaintiff families. The group, for its part, evokes “five complaints” for two years – including two for the Gradignan nursing home, confirms the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office – and ensures diligent “systematic internal investigations”.
“Dishes filled with water”, “dirty” rooms
Families, but also staff and even establishment directors, are numerous to denounce within the Emera group a drift, resulting from a race for profits at all costs, which recalls a precedent. “Two years following the Orpea scandal, nothing has changed”s’indigne Me Farge, who is also surprised by the lack of reaction from both public opinion and elected officials.
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