Grimbergen Institution Anemone is bankrupt. The approximately 20 residents – including many negentigers – by end of this week to leave. The staff now keeps the whole thing up a few days running, for the residents. “The situation is really distressing,” says head nurse Marina Delvoye. “The inhabitants of one day, and on the other to their fate, is not. We are working here not with machines but with people.”
The 26-year-old private sheltered housing in the Begonialaan was already on a black list of the Zorginspectie. Now it turns out that also the unpaid bills accumulated. The sanctuary is last Thursday adjudged bankrupt and a trustee appointed. The managers seem to be with the noorderzon disappeared. The staff members income the retirement home the next day itself with a minimumbezetting.
Indignation
The indignation is great. “Everyone has done its utmost to make the residents as comfortable as possible and the best possible care to offer”, says Marina Delvoye. She is all day on the leg to make the management somewhat still in the right direction. “I can be here at this moment, not only. We have the residents themselves should inform. The managers have been here early last week but they have simply not said.”
A bolt from the blue is the bankruptcy now. “You felt that it didn’t go so well. The managers were not present. There was a constant lack of staff, but they never have a hand out and help. A constant nurse permanence – although mandatory – was not the case. Overtime hours were not paid and they also do not include the under-staffing.”
Together with their family search for the residents – there were 20 on – now to solutions. This is also the OCMW Grimbergen, and the Agency could delay enabled.
“We are with a dozen attendants that us in the meantime still continue to work. Obviously, it is not simple to keep everyone motivated, but most of them remain on board. For many, this is also a social drama. We do not know whether we our wages are going to get.”
“They would be the managers ‘in the tank’ to cross. They have worked to make their pockets to fill, not because they have even a little bit with our standing. The staff, yes, who have cared for us.”
Margriet (89)
