Korian
Profile
Korian is a private medical care company that was founded by Charles Ruggieri, a steel and real estate tycoon in 2003. It owns over 1,000 elder care and nursing homes, in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. The company has come under the spotlight for a number of deaths that have taken place at its facilities. In early 2017, there was a flu outbreak at a Korian-owned nursing home in Lyon, France, that resulted in the deaths of 13 people and infected 70 percent of the residents. In April 2019, five residents of another Korian-owned nursing home in Lherm, France, died from food poisoning, and 20 further were hospitalized. And in 2020, nearly a third of residents at a Korian nursing home north of Cannes died from coronavirus.
Private nursing homes & clinics
Violations
Violation data on Korian is still being gathered at this time.
Stories
- Un pognon de dingue mais pour qui ? l'argent magique de la pandémie by Olivier Petitjean and Maxime Combes (2022)
Activism
Korian workers demand end to understaffing
La Gazette en Yvelines | March 17, 2022
Tuesday, March 8, following the call of the CGT union, the employees of the nursing home on the Island of Migneaux, managed by the Korian group, demonstrated against the deterioration of working conditions understaffing issues.
Employees at Grainville-sur-Odon nursing home demand "more staff and a decent salary"
Aurore Briffod and Lucie Caillieret | France 3 | February 26, 2022
The claims against the Korian Reine Mathilde nursing home in Grainville-sur-Odon (Calvados) keep increasing. “It is not the lack of means at the material level, it is rather the lack of staff, explains Florence Marc, nurse and union member at the CGT union.
Korian-St François nursing home staff on strike
Laurence Saccu | Le Progrès | January 11, 2022
This Tuesday morning, around fifty caregivers, psychological aides, maintenance workers, facilitators and even cooks gathered near the entrance gate to express their dissatisfaction and fatigue.
Alençon: Medical and social staff voice their anger
Nathalie Houdayer and Augustin Bordet | Ouest-France | June 15, 2021
“I am 54 years old. After having worked in the private sector, I worked in the public sector for 27 years. When I calculated my retirement income, I cried. If I leave at 62, I will have between €980 and €1,000 per month."
Korian staff demand "salary increase" in Chartres et Dreux
Pascale Rouchaud and Simon Dechet | L'Écho Républicain | October 16, 2020
Staff from the retirement homes La Roseraie in Dreux and Villa Evora in Chartres, both belonging to the Korian group, organized a strike on Friday, October 16.
Indre-et-Loire: employees of Korian group nursing homes on strike to denounce a wage freeze
Chloé Martin | France Bleu | October 16, 2020
There were a dozen workers in front of the Clos du Mûrier nursing home in Fondettes, northwest of Tours, this Friday afternoon. The employees of this establishment, which belongs to the Korian group, demonstrated to denounce the wage freeze and the reduction of the 13th month bonus.
- European Public Service Union (EPSU)
- European Network of Corporate Observatories (ENCO)
- Agence Régionale de Santé
- CGT Santé Action Sociale
- La Force Ouvrière
- Santé et Sociaux
- SUD Salarié-es Korian
& Lawsuits
Cash Investigation: hidden camera in a Korian nursing home
La Voix du Nord | March 1, 2022
The journalist was hired for three days in a Korian nursing home as a caregiver, while having neither diploma nor experience. With an undercover camera, she filmed the exhausting daily life of overworked employees, forced to advise an old lady to "wee in her adult diaper" because there was a lack of staff to accompany her to the toilets.
At Korian nursing home, 4.50 euros per day for meals for residents, says the CGT Union
Cécile Bidault | France Bleu | February 8, 2022
What the public knows of today, he has been denouncing for years: "it's institutional abuse, it's the institution that pushes the caregivers, who are in no way abusive and do a remarkable job, to commit these acts".
The Korian group again targeted by an investigation in one of its nursing homes
Gilles Triolier | Le Monde | December 30, 2019
How could Jeanine Dezaille, 94, resident of a nursing home near Rouen, die after being seriously burned by the water in her shower?
Deaths in a nursing home: the Korian group under fire from critics and this is not the first time
Léa Guedj | France Inter | April 6, 2019
Insufficient and distraught staff, high prices, seniors left to fend for themselves and rationed... The Korian group, which is posting record profits, has again been singled out since the death of five people in one of its retirement homes, following possible food poisoning.
Flu: towards the end of the epidemic at nursing home which left 13 dead
Le Progrès | January 9, 2017
Asked to react to testimonies from relatives of residents denouncing recurring dysfunctions and poor hygiene conditions in the establishment, the spokesperson admitted that "the families' concern is completely understandable", without responding directly to their questions.
& Relations
The Good News: The Korian group will not be able to silence the CGT Union
Pierre-Henri Lab | L'Humanité | March 18, 2022
The employees of the Korian group and their CGT union have just won a great legal victory. The Paris court acquitted carer Odette Wandji,who works at the Bel Air nursing home, in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine), against whom the management of the establishment had lodged a complaint.
CGT demonstration: "It's scandalous to attack an activist"
L'Est Éclair Abonné | November 3, 2021
Thirty CGT activists gathered on Thursday to denounce a complaint by the Korian group against a union representative.
“A working day in Bel-Air is a day in hell”: in Clamart, the revolt of nursing home employees
Le Parisien | Eléonore Disdero | July 5, 2021
“We won't give up!" This Monday, under the windows of the Bel-Air nursing home of the Korian group, in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine), the slogans rang out. Thirty people gathered under the banners of the CGT union to demand better working conditions.
The Korian group attacks a union representative, the CGT 06 united, to defend "individual and collective freedoms"
Grégoire Cornet | Nice Matin | March 11, 2021
Strong demands this Thursday before the Nice courthouse, following the appearance of Albert Papadacci in the Paris court. The union representative was attacked by the Korian group for "complicity in public defamation of an individual", following a report broadcast on France 3 in November.
Korian, DomusVi: in nursing homes, anti-union repression is in full swing
Cécile Rousseau | L'Humanite | October 1, 2020
Employees of several nursing homes of the Korian and DomusVi groups call out union-busting tactics, which have gone as far as dismissals.
Korian Workers are organising across borders
European Public Service Union | September 7, 2017
Workers and union representatives in the French multinational specialized in elderly care, Korian, met in Brussels, in order to better coordinate their struggles and strategies to secure better pay and conditions for the almost 47,000 workers employed in 4 countries.
COVID-19
Marpent: an internal investigation within a Korian nursing home, after the death of a resident
Alice Bonvoison | La Voix Du Nord | July 27, 2020
Roland Étienne, résident de l’EHPAD Samara (groupe Korian) est décédé le 24 avril après avoir contracté le Covid-19. Depuis, sa famille n’a eu de cesse de vouloir faire la lumière sur les circonstances de cette mort. Alertée, l’Agence régionale de santé (ARS) a ...
French Nursing Homes Employees Protest Pay, Conditions
VOA | May 26, 2020
Employees of a major group of French nursing homes on Monday took part in protests across France to call for better pay amid the coronavirus crisis.
The Korian group targeted by two new legal investigations
Chloé Pilorget-Rezzouk and Ismaël Halissat | Libération | May 19, 2020
The two preliminary investigations by the Nanterre public prosecutor's office for manslaughter, endangering the lives of others and failure to assist a person in danger concern the "Bel-Air" establishment in Clamart.
French nursing home learns costly lessons on containing coronavirus
Caroline Pailliez, Matthias Galante | Reuters | April 17, 2020
When managers at La Riviera nursing home on France’s Cote D’Azur found out a resident had the COVID-19 virus, they put into action a standard playbook they believed would contain the spread. It did not.
Financials
Care home group Korian plans shift into 'mission-led' company
Federica Mileo and Diana Mandia | NASDAQ | February 23, 2022
French care home group Korian (KORI) said on Wednesday it was aiming to become a mission-led company amid pressures following investigations into rival Orpea's (ORP) alleged mistreatment of elderly residents.
Korian finalizes the acquisition of Ita Salud Mental
Les Echos | June 2, 2021
The operator of retirement homes and clinics Korian has confirmed that it has completed the acquisition of Ita Salud Mental, after obtaining the necessary regulatory and competition law authorizations.
Korian will raise 400 million euros to acquire Inicea
Le Figaro | October 10, 2020
The number one European retirement home operator Korian will launch a capital increase of 400 million euros to afford the psychiatric operator Inicea and strengthen its activities dedicated to mental health, the company announced on Thursday.
Procurement
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