The “New Local Hospital” project in Lombez aims to provide an innovative and coordinated healthcare offer in the same building: a city-hospital symbiosis where imaging will have its place.
The director of the Jean-Claude Thieule hospital is delighted with the validation obtained on May 30 to implement a scanner in Lombez. This is how the project to use cross-sectional imaging came to fruition: “A basic diagnostic tool that was lacking on our territory. And not only for Savès but for the entire eastern strip of the department, in connection with the Auch hospital. I would like to thank Didier Jaffre, the director general of the ARS for his confidence”, underlines Jean-Claude Thieule.
The request was made in November 2022: “This is a tremendous step forward which will make it possible to develop the reception of unscheduled care (SNP) and thus avoid overbooking emergencies in Auch and Toulouse”.
The file for the scanner was set up with the Samatan radiology office which has just been bought by a Bordeaux group: Oradianse. Indeed, the “New Local Hospital of Lombez” (NHL), erected on the outskirts of the village, plans to accommodate within its walls a public/private imaging platform with scanner, radiology and ultrasound.
Horizon 2027
In addition, the H24 biology part, in connection with Auch, is also included in this project which should see the light of day in 2027: “Another objective, outpatient hospitalization for examinations and assessments, adds Jean-Claude Thieule, enthusiastic. We are also restructuring the full hospitalization services. The NHL will be a forum for care: dental, physio, prevention and health education. General practitioners, hospitals and specialists will fully play their role. »
Geriatrics remains at the heart of the missions
The new building oriented towards geriatric medicine – its specificity – will benefit from very innovative equipment and operation, and promises to be “a unique structure” in France: “Our job is geriatric support, chronic diseases, palliative care. concludes the director.
While the NHL project is taking shape, the current hospital site, in the heart of the village, will be completely converted into an EHPAD, offering the comfort of individual avant-garde rooms.