This power modulation allows the right patient to be in the right place [et permet aussi] Teams to benefit from well-deserved vacations while offering quality and safe services to the populationassures the CIUSSSE-CHUS.

This closure will affect patients in the Transition Recovery Unit and Medical Unit. 32 beds will be relocated CHSLD of Memphremagog, after the CIUSSS. Recall that the CHSLD provides these users with a more suitable living environment through the physical environment, staff-user ratio, leisure and othersmentions the CIUSSS.

THE CIUSSS from Estria – CHUS hopes to limit the impact on staff as much as possible, but notes that some staff will need to be reassigned.

A closure that could be extended

Stéphanie Goulet, Interim President of the Union of Care Professionals of the Eastern Townships, affiliated to the FIQShe fears this supposedly temporary closure will last beyond the summer.

” Honestly, if we don’t find a way to get resources back into the public health grid, not only will we be short of the holidays, we’ll be short of staff throughout the year, even when it’s not a holiday. It is certain that some of the announced modulations that will be made for summer 2023 will not be able to resume in autumn 2023 if we do not find the resources. »

Ms Goulet claims that work teams are being reduced but patients remain the same in number, jeopardizing the quality of care provided. We can’t keep working like this. People burn out, quit [congé de] sickness or leaving the healthcare system and the shortage only gets worse. Working conditions must be improved and for this we must either find resources or reduce the services offered.