Review of 2024 and wishes for 2025 with Laurent Guillot
2024 was marked by a major change: we became emeis. A change name that reinforces our mission and our commitments. Here's a look back at a year like no other with Laurent Guillot, our CEO.
If you had to take 3 things from the past year, what would they be?
Laurent Guillot: As far 2024 is concerned, I would highlight 3 major events. First of all, at the very end of 2023, a group of new shareholders Caisse des Dépôts, MAIF, MACSF and CNP Assurances - took a stake in our capital, placing their trust in us to lead the transformation of our group. Thanks to their support, we can look to the future with confidence and plan for the long term.
In 2024 we also opened a new chapter in the Group's history with a new identity. After 2 years of rethinking, we became emeis. It's not just a new name, it's the concrete expression of our ambition to speak with one voice, in our establishments, with our residents and patients, in our offices and in the homes of our beneficiaries. With this new name, we can proudly affirm who we are and pursue our project. Finally, throughout last year, we continued transformation work we have been carrying out since 2022.
What do you wish for emeis and its employees in 2025?
L. G.: Our employees are our priority; they are the ones who provide support and care every day. We need to take care of them. In 2025, I want them to be fulfilled in their personal and professional lives, and above all to be healthy. The centrepiece of our day-to-day work is health and safety in the workplace, which we absolutely owe to our employees. For the past two years, we have been working to create a genuine health and safety culture in the workplace, in order to protect our carers and our teams. It still needs to be widely disseminated, and understood and appropriated by everyone. This is an essential step in our transformation for the benefit of our employees. I hope that we will take this ambition as far as possible, so that everyone can continue to fulfil the mission entrusted to us, that being "supporting and sustaining vitality", without ever paying the price in terms of their own health.
What would you like to see happen in your sector?
L.G: I would put forward two points: the need to come together on the subject of the quality of the care and services delivered: we should be able to compare ourselves against each other on the basis of objective evidence, which could lead, why not, to an authoritative label in the sector but also with all our stakeholders, particularly our supervisory authorities. A guarantee of quality and reassurance for all our beneficiaries and our teams.
My second wish is that we should all be committed to the promise of a reasonable profit, that our sector should succeed in aligning financial equilibrium with operational excellence. To achieve this, all of us in the sector, from nursing homes to clinics, need to come together and work together. At emeis, we are fortunate to have the support of our shareholders in this direction, so that we can return to more virtuous economic growth. I hope we can become the model to follow!