In an attempt to turn the page on the scandal, Orpea is playing the double card of contrition and transparency.

CEO Philippe Charrier thus affirms in an interview with the

JDD

that the group, which presents its results on Friday and organizes from mid-May an open house operation to try to reassure about its practices, has “sinned for lack of rigor”.

"The time has come to build the new Orpea, in transparency", assures the CEO.

"This is why we are launching the "General Assembly of Orpea", the idea being to open, between May 13 and June 11, the doors of our nursing homes to the families of residents, elected officials, the associative world, journalists and all citizens interested in the issue of old age".

"Today, we know, so we correct"

The first conclusions of the two external audits carried out by the group point to flaws in the care of patients.

“Reporting of serious healthcare-related adverse events, in particular, was too slow;

there may have been omissions”, recognizes Philippe Charrier.

The audits also show the existence of year-end discounts from suppliers of publicly funded products.

“Orpea sinned by lack of rigor.

Today, we know, so we correct, ”he assures.

To fight against understaffing, the group will “from now on pay overtime, study the possibility of offering better mutual insurance” to its “employees, facilitate their career development and changes in status”.

An open judicial inquiry

The private group has also recently filed a complaint against X for misuse of corporate assets.

This "complaint against unnamed persons" relates to "past facts and operations - unrelated to the conditions of reception and care of residents - likely to raise questions with regard to the social interest of Orpea and discovered at the continuation of internal investigations”, had explained the group at the beginning of May.

Orpea has been under fire from critics since the publication at the end of January of independent journalist Victor Castanet's investigative book

Les Fossoyeurs

.

A report commissioned by the government pointed to serious dysfunctions in early April.

And the group has been the subject of a judicial inquiry since the end of April, opened in Nanterre, on suspicion of institutional mistreatment or financial offences.

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