CNP Foundation: Agir pour la santé

ACTIVE CHARITY WORK IN THE HEALTH FIELD
 
Since 1988, CNP Assurances, the leading personal insurer in France, has been committed to solidarity through charity to promote health. The Company supports progress in prevention, medical research and patient management, working towards a more humane and more accessible medicine.

Since 1999, the CNP Foundation, with an annual budget of FRF 3.5 million, focuses all its operations on the fight against pain.

Through providing a grant for the creation of the DOLOPLUS Internet site, the Foundation wishes to facilitate the widest international circulation and use of the DOLOPLUS scale, and thus contribute to enhanced assessment of pain in non-communicative elderly subjects with a view to better relieving it. 

NUMEROUS ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIELD OF PAIN:

• a study of the progress in the management of pain in patients with neoplastic disease between 1991 and 2000;
• a study of analgesia in newborns combining a national survey, circulation of recommendations and clinical research;
• publication, with the SPARADRAP association, of information forms for children and their families on the use of nitric oxide (NO) in the treatment of pain and alleviation of pain at suture sites;
• production of a training film on the presence of parents with their hospitalized child;
• creation of an Internet site on the management of pain in children in the Midi-Pyrénées region;
• production of a training film on the assessment of pain in subjects with multiple handicaps;
• training voluntary workers in terminal care, in hospital or at home, through the ASP Palliative Care association. 

Contacts and dossier requests: fondation@cnp.fr

Cure sometimes, relieve often, care for the terminally ill always

ASSOCIATION PIERRE CLÉMENT LORRAINE

Created in August 1995, i.e. in the months following opening of the Regional Department for Palliative Care at the Metz-Thionville Hospital (CHR), the Association Pierre Clément Lorraine derives from the Association Pierre Clément, founded in Strasbourg in 1987 by Jeanne-Andrée MUNSCH.

A non-profit making association under local law (1908), the Association Pierre Clément Lorraine is also a member of the Société Française d'Accompagnement et de Soins Palliatifs and the European Palliative Care
Association.

The headquarters are located in the regional department for Palliative Care at Hôpital Bel-Air, Thionville. Recently created, the association has some 180 members and numerous supporters.

The Association Pierre Clément Lorraine has 3 major objectives:

1-Increasing public awareness of the palliative movement

This is mainly achieved through quarterly public events held in a hall in the town center of Thionville. Their immediate success has since turned into a long-lasting success. Thirteen evening meetings and public debates on a variety of multidisciplinary themes have been organized. Around 150 people attended each meeting.

The symposia, Journées Lorraines de Soins Palliatifs, is a further means of enhancing our public influence.
The first symposium, Journée Lorraine de Soins Palliatifs, took place on June 27, 1998, at the Thionville municipal theater. The theme was: 'Elderly people at the end of life: the forgotten sufferers of pain'.

Supported from the outset by the Société Française d'Accompagnement et de Soins Palliatifs, the METZ-THIONVILLE hospital (CHR) and the Thionville town council, and under the high patronage of Mr. Bernard KOUCHNER, Secretary of State for Health, the event patently fulfilled an expectation. We expected 400 people; 950 registered for the congress. The Journées Lorraines de Soins Palliatifs will take place every 2 years (next session: October 14, 2000).

2-Supporting palliative care research and training

The fine work of the DOLOPLUS Group on the behavioral assessment of pain in the elderly, an internationally reputed study, deserves mention. The organization of and participation in various congresses, financial support for member training, the purchase of high-performance audiovisual equipment and sponsorship of the MOBILMED Foundation in Bucharest constitute other examples of concrete achievements. 

3- Recruiting, training and supervising terminal care volunteers

A group of 6 to 10 volunteers is trained each year. We now have some 30 operational volunteers. A few statistics as an illustration: some 60 people whose lives were ending benefited from the presence of our terminal care volunteers in 1999. This constitutes over 600 hours of terminal care at some 30 different sites, including patients' homes.