The outpatient perinatal psychiatry unit of the Nord Essonne Hospital Group (GHNE), La Paruline, has been strengthened thanks to funding of €450,400 from ARS Île-de-France. This funding brings the total investment dedicated to the installation of the departmental sector specialized in perinatal psychiatry to 1.6 million euros, allowing coordinated and complete coverage of the Essonne territory. Communiqué.
This financial support aims to consolidate and develop specialized psychiatric care systems intended for parents in the pre- and post-natal period, as well as very young children with early developmental disorders.
In Essonne, a department which has 1,300,000 inhabitants and records around 18,000 births per year, the need for perinatal psychiatry is significant. Perinatal psychological disorders (postpartum depression, puerperal psychoses, severe anxiety, parent-child bonding disorders) affect between 10 and 20% of women in the perinatal period and constitute a major public health issue, both for parents and for the early development of the child.
The ARS Île-de-France has made the development of this sector a priority as part of its Regional Health Project and the national policy of the first 1000 days. The challenge is twofold: guarantee equitable access to care throughout the country and ensure early care, a determining condition for preventing long-term complications among children and their parents. The sector thus formed combines reinforced ambulatory care, adapted day hospitalization systems and partnerships with all perinatal stakeholders.
La Paruline – a pivotal structure at the heart of the sector
La Paruline is the outpatient perinatal psychiatry unit of the Nord Essonne Hospital Group (GHNE), a reference establishment for the north of the department (covering the child psychiatry sector 91I04). Thanks to funding from ARS Île-de-France, this team was able to be strengthened and a mobile perinatal psychiatry unit PPLUM was created in order to ensure the early identification and management of perinatal psychological disorders of patients registered at the Saclay maternity ward, in collaboration with the MPS staff and without distinction of sector, as well as families in neonatology. The antenatal care offered can be in the form of outpatient consultations or in HDJ in conjunction with the obstetrics department.
Postnatally, assessments are carried out following delivery and day hospitalization care may be offered.
A sector under construction to cover the whole of Essonne
Beyond strengthening La Paruline, the ambition jointly carried by the ARS Île-de-France and the GHNE is to structure, at the departmental level, a coordinated and understandable response for professionals and families. This requires developing links between hospitals, maternity wards, medical-psychological centers (CMP), Maternal and Child Protection services (PMI) and community doctors, so that no woman experiencing perinatal suffering is left without guidance or appropriate care.
More information on the Essonne territorial mental health contract: Signature of the Essonne territorial mental health contract: a collective commitment to meet the challenges of mental health | Ile-de-France regional health agency
Press release, ARS Ile-de-France, April 2, 2026.
