The sector, which demanded an increase of 17% in the price per place, sees the offer as “insufficient”, although it values the counselor’s “willingness to agree”
The vice president of the regional government and counselor for Women, Equality, LGTBI, Families and Social Policy, Isabel Franco, and the representatives of the main associations in the nursing home sector in the Region of Murcia (Adermur, Lares and Arsalu) approached yesterday positions regarding the increase in the price that the Autonomous Community pays for the places that it has arranged with private centers, which account for around 85% of the total in the Region.
At the meeting held yesterday – a meeting that the representatives of the associations described as “cordial” – Franco took the reins of the negotiations after months of protests and reproaches from the sector and put on the table a firm proposal to increase the price per place and day, which is currently set below 58 euros.
According to that proposal, the regional government will increase these concerts up to 13% progressively over the next four years. The document presented yesterday to those responsible for Adermur, Lares and Arsalu contemplates an increase for this year of 2.5%, with the most notable increase occurring in the last year (2025), with a price increase of more than 5%. This would mean an additional expense for the regional public coffers of more than five million euros in four years.
The main point of disagreement is now in the increases projected for each of the years of the agreement
However, this offer is still “insufficient” for the nursing home sector in the Region, which had claimed a progressive increase of 17% for the same period, according to LA VERDAD last week. The main point of contention, according to sources in the sector, is not so much the percentage of global increase but precisely the annual distribution of these percentages, since “the Ministry’s proposal leaves the greatest increase for the last year, when it should be just the opposite and have the largest increase this year due to the situation that the centers are going through ».
The associations describe the meeting with Franco as “cordial” after months of protests and reproaches
According to the proposal raised by the associations a few weeks ago, the largest increase would occur this year, with a 6%. In 2023 another increase of 4% would be applied, which represents the same percentage of increase proposed by the sector for 2024, to complete that 17% global increase with a last increase of 3% in 2025. As explained by the same sources, “We have taken the proposal of the counselor to be able to introduce now the modifications that we consider opportune and to be able to find a definitive solution once and for all”. Likewise, it is the first time for months that the sector positively values Isabel Franco’s disposition, with “the will to reach an agreement”.
If the conflict around the update of the price per place seems to be heading towards a definitive agreement, the negotiations on the payment of the extra costs generated by the pandemic in the centers continue without palpable results. Of course, Franco also promised yesterday to “continue working” in this regard with the aim of offering a satisfactory solution for the sector.
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