a walk-in care center will soon open
A walk-in care center will open its doors at the Saint-Exupéry clinic in Toulouse this Monday, January 16. An intermediate offer between doctors and emergencies, it will welcome patients with everyday pathologies seven days a week.
Have you just sprained yourself or your child has a 40° fever, but your doctor cannot take you for a consultation? No worries. An unscheduled care center, i.e. without an appointment, will open on the ground floor of the Saint-Exupéry clinic in Toulouse this Monday, January 16. called on SiDOChis mission is to treat everyday ailments when the attending physician is not available.
Four doctors and three nurses, trained in emergency care, make up the team of this structure. “We take care of benign medical pathologies, such as infections or acute pain, but also minor traumatology, such as fractures, sprains and bruises. The nurses could also provide post-operative care and vaccines, ”explains Fabien Parouty, doctor at SiDOC.
A care center open seven days a week, without appointment
To be able to treat patients as well as possible, the care center will have a technical platform of nearly 300 m² consisting of eight consultation boxes, an electrocardiogram, suture and immobilization equipment and infusion devices. The SiDOC team of doctors and nurses will also have access to the radiology center and the medical analysis laboratory of the Saint-Exupéry clinic.
For information, they will welcome patients without an appointment from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., continuously. And this, seven days a week, precisely from Monday to Friday inclusive. “A doctor and a nurse will show up daily,” says Fabien Parouty. Contracted sector 1, the team of the care center will apply the tariffs fixed by the Social security and will not practice overruns of fees.
This unscheduled care center therefore complements city medicine. “We will be in an area where people sometimes have difficulty getting access to care or a doctor in a timely manner. The approach of the Saint-Exupéry clinic, with the SiDOC, is thus to amplify the offer of local care for the inhabitants of the sector”, explains Fabien Parouty.
This care center is also and above all an intermediary between general medicine and emergency services. But it does not replace one or the other. “We come in support. Moreover, we do not take heavy patients and do not carry out regular medical monitoring. We will therefore not renew prescriptions, or sports certificates for example, ”informs the doctor.
This innovative medical structure is unprecedented in Toulouse
The SiDOC is unique in its form. “He is innovative. Similar structures exist in France and in the region but they do not have a technical platform like ours. These are generally general medicine practices,” notes Fabien Parouty. The four doctors and three nurses will therefore be able experience this brand new model of care center starting January 19.
“During the next six months, we will assess the relevance of the structure, the quality of the care offered and the number of patients treated per day. We will see how things evolve, ”announces the doctor. If this private practice of nurses and doctors is a success, it could then be reproduced elsewhere. “It’s a duplicable model”, assures Fabien Parouty.