New in Toulouse: a walk-in care center for “minor emergencies”
An unscheduled care center will open on the premises of the Saint-Exupéry clinic in Toulouse. It will be able to accommodate patients 7 days a week and will rely on the clinic’s equipment for imaging and biology. Between the doctor’s office and the emergency services, this new offer should quickly find its place.
In the context of a shortage of doctors and the difficulty of finding appointments quickly, this new healthcare offer will, for sure, be well received by Toulouse residents and the inhabitants of nearby municipalities. From Monday, January 16, the Saint-Exupéry clinic (member of the independent Clinavenir clinics) is hosting SiDOC, an unscheduled care center. This is intended to take care of “minor emergencies” that are not corrected by regular medical monitoring.
Seven days a week, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., a doctor and a nurse will welcome patients, without an appointment, for care that does not work, vital emergencies that cannot wait, such as the ear infection of a child with a fever of 40° or a sports accident at the weekend. Consultations and care are provided without excess fees. Strong point of the structure: it will be able to rely on the technical platform of the Saint-Exupéry clinic for imaging (radio, ultrasound, scanner, MRI) and biological analyses. It is also located very close to major highways and the project for the third metro line includes a stop nearby, place de l’Ormeau.
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“We will not be an emergency service, it is not our mission. We will not take care of chronic diseases and patient follow-up either. But we will be the missing link between the two”, summarizes Dr. Fabien Parouty, one of the four SiDOC doctors who also has three nurses. The project was born out of the Saint-Exupéry clinic’s desire to offer local care, particularly since the departure of the teams from the Saint-Jean du Languedoc clinic to the Croix du Sud clinic, and the desire to a group of doctors and nurses to “propose something new, and find solutions for everything that is not scheduled, including the weekend”.
With 8 consultation boxes, the project is ambitious. “We have no certainty as to attendance, it is acquired oversized. But we are not going to open the 8 boxes at once, we start with a doctor and a nurse permanently. We all have experience in emergency care”, specifies Dr Fabien Parouty.
SiDOC adheres to the Professional Territorial Health Community (CPTS) of La Providence which brings together 230 health professionals in an area of 150,000 inhabitants from Bonnefoy to Montaudran.