Agence régionale de Santé Pays de la Loire

What Agence régionale de Santé Pays de la Loire does

Agence régionale de santé (ARS) Pays de la Loire is a decentralized public establishment of the French state, created under the 2009 Hospital, Patients, Health and Territories Act (Loi HPST) and operating under the authority of the French Ministry of Health (Ministère des Solidarités et de la Santé). Headquartered in Nantes, the agency is responsible for implementing regional health policy across the Pays de la Loire region, covering five departments (Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe, Vendée), 32,082 km² and more than 3.7 million inhabitants. It exercises statutory authority over healthcare establishments (hospitals, EHPADs/nursing homes, clinics), regulates healthcare professionals, coordinates public health surveillance, and manages environmental health functions including drinking water monitoring (over 14,000 annual samples yielding 99.8% microbiological compliance and 98.5% pesticide compliance) and swimming pool sanitation (800+ establishments monitored).

The agency operates a web-based public health information and service platform organized around five functional pillars: reporting and alerting (mandatory disease reporting, IT security incidents, dengue/chikungunya/zika surveillance, COVID-19 monitoring via its Cellule de veille et d'alerte); establishment and professional support (authorizations, CAQES contracting, financing, quality assurance, RPPS registration, advanced practice nurse training); prevention and environmental health (vaccination, "Mon bilan prévention," environmental health, water quality); health policy animation (the 2023-2028 Projet régional de santé, the PAPRAPS/IRAPS care appropriateness framework spanning 2022-2025 and 2026-2029, Contrats locaux de santé, Article 51 innovation experiments, health simulation); and territorial animation via five departmental delegations.

ARS Pays de la Loire does not operate on a commercial revenue model. Its activities are funded through French state health budgets and tax revenues allocated by the Ministry of Health, with additional co-funding from partners such as CNSA for specific programs (e.g., €134,000 allocated for anti-fall prevention in Vendée in 2026). The organization employs 101-250 staff across its headquarters and five territorial delegations. Governance is led by an interim Director General, Isabelle Monnier, with a Director of Finance and Pilotage Support (Patrick Chauvet) and five departmental directors responsible for territorial execution. The agency is not an investable entity in the conventional sense — it is a state-mandated regional health authority with a structural monopoly on its assigned public health functions within its geographic jurisdiction.

Name

Agence régionale de Santé Pays de la Loire

Legal name

Agence régionale de santé Pays de la Loire

Website

https://pays-de-la-loire.ars.sante.fr

Company type

Public

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Agence régionale de santé Pays de la Loire is a French state-run regional health agency, headquartered in Nantes, that implements health policy across five departments serving 3.7M+ inhabitants, overseeing healthcare establishments, professionals, water quality monitoring, and emergency health response.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Administration

NAICS

Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (623)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

County/District/Local Health Departments (HLAJAAAB)

Keywords

• Public health administration
• Health policy regulation
• Healthcare facility oversight
• Environmental health monitoring
• Regional health services

Headquarters

HQ city

Nantes

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Agence régionale de Santé Pays de la Loire is a decentralized French government agency that implements regional health policy, oversees healthcare establishments and professionals, conducts environmental and water quality surveillance, coordinates health emergency response, and delivers regional health programs for the 3.7M+ inhabitants of the Pays de la Loire region across five departments.

Product overview

The Agence régionale de santé Pays de la Loire operates a multi-module public health information and service platform organized around five core pillars: (1) Reporting and Alerting (Signaler/Alerter/Déclarer) for disease surveillance and IT security incidents; (2) Establishment and Professional Support providing authorization, contracting, financing, and training pathways; (3) Prevention and Health-Environment covering vaccination, preventive health check-ups, environmental health, and water quality monitoring; (4) Health Policy Animation including the regional health project (PRS 2023-2028), the PAPRAPS care appropriateness framework driven by IRAPS, local health contracts (CLS), and Article 51 innovation experiments; and (5) Territorial Delegations across five departments ensuring proximity delivery of all services. Key operational services include drinking water quality monitoring (14,000+ annual samples), swimming pool sanitary control (800+ establishments), the national elder-abuse reporting line 3133, and the seasonal canicule heatwave helpline. The platform also supports healthcare establishment contracting via CAQES and manages a regional portfolio of project calls (AAP/AMI) for health innovation funding.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Signaler / Alerter / Déclarer (Reporting and Alerting Service)

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.8% of population supplied with microbiologically compliant drinking water
• +3 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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App detail

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CegedimcoreOthers
• Assurance Maladie (Health Insurance)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner
• OMEDIT (Regional Drug Observatory)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner
• ONCOPL (Regional Cancer Care Network)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner
• QualiREL SantécoreStrategic or Co-development Partner
• Réseau Sécurité NaissancecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner
• Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner
• Social Networks (Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube)minorOthers

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Agence Régionale de Santé Île-de-France: The ARS for the Île-de-France region, the largest French ARS by population served. Operates with the same statutory mandate, organizational structure, and service portfolio (PAPRAPS, territorial delegations, environmental health) as ARS Pays de la Loire, making it the closest functional peer.
• Agence Régionale de Santé Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: ARS covering the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region with the same regulatory mandate and operational structure; comparable in geographic scope (multiple departments) and service breadth to ARS Pays de la Loire.
• Agence Régionale de Santé Nouvelle-Aquitaine: ARS for Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the largest French region by area. Shares the identical legal framework, multi-department territorial delegation model, and oversight scope (hospitals, EHPADs, environmental health) as ARS Pays de la Loire.
• Agence Régionale de Santé Occitanie: ARS for the Occitanie region with comparable regional health agency mandate, PRS framework, and territorial delegation structure; directly comparable in operational scope to ARS Pays de la Loire.
• Agence Régionale de Santé Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: ARS covering the PACA region with the same statutory mission of regional health policy implementation, healthcare facility authorization, and environmental health surveillance.
• Agence Régionale de Santé Grand Est: ARS for the Grand Est region operating under the same legal framework, with comparable multi-department territorial delegations and oversight portfolio (hospitals, EHPADs, environmental health).
• Agence Régionale de Santé Hauts-de-France: ARS for Hauts-de-France, exercising identical regional health agency functions including PRS, PAPRAPS, and territorial delegation operations across multiple departments.
• Agence Régionale de Santé Bretagne: ARS for Brittany, a neighboring region of comparable size and population to Pays de la Loire; exercises the same statutory mandate over healthcare establishments, professionals, and environmental health.

Broad incumbents

• Santé Publique France: The national public health agency of France, providing nationwide surveillance, alert, and epidemiological capabilities that complement and feed into the regional ARS network including Pays de la Loire.

Others

• Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS): National independent health authority that sets quality standards used by ARS Pays de la Loire in facility authorization, CAQES contracting, and PAPRAPS indicator design; a strategic ecosystem partner rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ars_pdl
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCj4RFe4oiv0p4F9gspEUZrQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/ARSPaysdelaLoire
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ars-pays-de-la-loire
• Instagraminstagram.com/ars_paysdelaloire

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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