Agence régionale de santé Centre-Val de Loire

What Agence régionale de santé Centre-Val de Loire does

The Agence régionale de santé (ARS) Centre-Val de Loire is a French regional health agency — an Établissement public administratif under the supervision of the Ministère de la Santé et de la Prévention — created by the 2009 HPST reform to replace the former regional hospital agencies and health-insurance unions. Headquartered in Orléans with six departmental delegations covering Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, and Loiret, the ARS is responsible for implementing national health policy across the region, regulating 141 health establishments and 949 medical-social services, coordinating with 13,507 health professionals, and serving a population of approximately 2.6 million inhabitants.

Its core functional portfolio spans regional health planning (Projet régional de santé 2023-2028), funding allocation (the FIR distributed €206.3M to 595 beneficiaries in 2025), inspection and authorization of health activities, health crisis management, and access-to-care initiatives targeting medical deserts. The agency's technology backbone is delivered through the GRADeS (Groupement régional d'appui au développement de la e-santé), which coordinates 41 digital health services including the PIMM Centre regional teleradiology network (11 hospitals), Itinéo care-pathway coordination, Mon Espace Santé patient records (11.2M documents added regionally in 2024), the SAS unscheduled-care service (over 151,000 files processed), and the SIGNAL adverse-event reporting system.

The ARS does not sell commercial products or services; it is funded entirely through public budgetary channels — Assurance Maladie, CNSA, FIR, and direct State allocations. Its "customers" are the regulated health and medical-social establishments, healthcare professionals, and the general population of the region, all reached through institutional coordination, calls for projects, weekly La Lettre Pro newsletter (9,434+ subscribers), events, press relations, and digital channels. Recent strategic emphasis has been on digital-health infrastructure (PIMM Centre, GRADeS), combating medical deserts (France Santé network, SAS), and integrating mental-health services (CHU d'Orléans / EPSM Georges Daumezon direction commune).

Name

Agence régionale de santé Centre-Val de Loire

Legal name

Agence régionale de santé Centre-Val de Loire

Website

https://centre-val-de-loire.ars.sante.fr

Company type

Public

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

The Agence régionale de santé Centre-Val de Loire is a French government health agency headquartered in Orléans that regulates 141 health establishments, coordinates with 13,507 professionals, and serves 2.6 million inhabitants through its Orléans HQ and six departmental delegations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Administration

NAICS

Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Local Public Health & Human Services Administration (BPAIACAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Hospitals, Clinics & Charitable Healthcare Providers (BPAGACAB), Health Research Funding Agencies (Public/Quasi-Public) (HLAJALAB)

Keywords

• Regional health authority
• Public health administration
• Healthcare regulation
• Health system funding
• Health policy coordination

Headquarters

HQ city

Orléans

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Public Health Funding (Assurance Maladie, CNSA, State): The ARS coordinates an annual financial synthesis covering expenditures by health insurance schemes (Assurance Maladie), the National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy (CNSA), the Regional Intervention Fund (FIR), and the State. In 2024, €3,672 per inhabitant was spent on healthcare in the region (vs. €4,065 nationally). Total FIR allocation in 2025 was €206.3M distributed to 595 beneficiaries.
2. Regional Intervention Fund (FIR): The FIR is a regional budget managed by the ARS to finance projects responding to territorial needs, supporting prevention, quality, coordination, and health security. In 2025, €206.3M was distributed among 595 beneficiaries. In 2024, the FIR financed 550 projects totaling €206M.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Agence régionale de santé Centre-Val de Loire (ARS Centre-Val de Loire) is a French regional public administrative body that defines, coordinates, and implements national health policy across the Centre-Val de Loire region. It regulates healthcare establishments (hospitals, clinics, nursing homes), funds health system actors, oversees public health programs, manages health crisis response, and coordinates a regional digital health platform (GRADeS) providing 41 e-health services including telemedicine.

Product overview

The Agence régionale de santé Centre-Val de Loire operates as a regional public health authority rather than a commercial product company. Its service portfolio centers on policy coordination, health funding management, and digital infrastructure for the regional healthcare ecosystem. Key offerings include La Lettre Pro (weekly professional newsletter), the GRADeS digital health platform managing 41 digital services, the PIMM Centre teleradiology network serving 11 hospitals, Itinéo coordination platform, Mon Espace Santé integration, the Service d'Accès aux Soins (SAS) access service, the SIGNAL event reporting system, and ViaTrajectoire care pathway management. The agency also manages the Fonds d'Intervention Régional (FIR) with €206.3M distributed to 595 beneficiaries in 2025, health expenditure reporting (€3,672 per capita in 2024), and regional health surveys.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• GRADeS (Groupement Régional d'Appui au Développement de la e-Santé) digital services A coordinated regional platform offering 41 e-health digital services to healthcare professionals and establishments in the Centre-Val de Loire region, including shared medical records, telemedicine, secure messaging, and regional image hosting.
• PIMM Centre (Plateforme d'Imagerie Médicale Mutualisée) Mutualized medical imaging platform providing teleradiology services to hospitals and clinicians across the Centre-Val de Loire region, enabling remote diagnostic image interpretation.
• Service d'Accès aux Soins (SAS) A healthcare access service designed to direct patients to appropriate care (emergency or scheduled) and ensure unscheduled care response within the region. Targeted at both patients and healthcare professionals.
• SIGNAL-Santé event reporting system An online event reporting platform allowing healthcare professionals, patients, and the public to report adverse health events, sanitary issues, and signal health risks to the agency.
• ViaTrajectoire A digital orientation platform used to manage patient care pathways between hospital, rehabilitation, and long-term care facilities; serves healthcare professionals and establishments across the region.
• Mon Espace Santé (Regional component) Regional coordination of the national digital health record system enabling citizens to store and share their health documents with healthcare professionals.

Quantifiable outcome

• €206.3M FIR budget distributed to 595 beneficiaries in 2025
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• Ministère de la Santé (Ministry of Health)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe ARS operates under the authority of the French Ministry of Health, implementing national health policies at the regional level. Key national initiatives implemented include Ma Santé 2022, Ségur de la santé, and Ségur du numérique. The Ministry validates major hospital projects (e.g., validation of the Nouvel hôpital de Blois project).
• GRADeS Centre-Val de LoirecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGroupement régional d'appui au développement de la e-santé — the regional digital health support group managing 41 digital services for healthcare professionals across Centre-Val de Loire, under ARS coordination and governance.
• CHRU de TourscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe regional teaching hospital is a primary strategic partner for complex care, research, and medical education. The ARS supports its major projects and coordinates on public health programs. CHRU de Tours performed 252 organ transplants in 2024 and is a key actor in numerous ARS-funded initiatives.
• GCS PIMM CentrecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGroupement de coopération sanitaire managing the first regional public teleradiology organization in France. Brings together 11 public hospitals for shared medical imaging. Launched with ARS support as an innovative regional solidarity initiative.
• CoReSS Centre-Val de LoirecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerComité de Coordination Régionale de la Santé Sexuelle — coordinates sexual health programs, STI/HIV prevention, and reproductive health across the region under ARS oversight. Organizes events like the Semaine de la santé sexuelle.
• Conseil régional Centre-Val de LoiremajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe regional council is a key institutional partner for regional health initiatives. Example: partnership with Région and Médecins solidaires for opening new health centers (e.g., Mondoubleau).
• Conseils départementaux (departmental councils)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDepartmental councils are partners in local health actions. Example: ARS and Conseil départementale du Loiret jointly engaged in accompaniment of elderly persons (November 2025 meeting in Dordives).
• Santé publique France (regional delegation)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe national public health agency works with the ARS on regional health surveillance, epidemiological monitoring, and health campaigns (e.g., vaccination, cancer screening, health barometer).
• CPTS (Communautés professionnelles territoriales de santé)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTerritorial professional health communities are key ARS partners for organizing primary care, coordinating health professionals, and implementing care access initiatives (e.g., direct access to physiotherapists experiment in Loiret, SAS deployment).
• EPSM Georges DaumezonmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPublic mental health establishment now in shared direction (direction commune) with CHU d'Orléans, under ARS coordination. Supported by exceptional psychiatric financing of €10.5M+ and major renovation projects.
• Assurance Maladie (CPAM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealth insurance funds are key financial and operational partners for the ARS, co-financing healthcare expenditure and implementing prevention programs. The ARS publishes annual financial states combining Assurance Maladie, CNSA, FIR, and State expenditures.
• France Santé networkmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational network for strengthening access to proximity care. First structure labeled in Loiret (December 2025) under the France Santé program coordinated by ARS at regional level, with the first labellized facility being a care structure in the Loiret department.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Agence régionale de santé Occitanie: ARS covering the Occitanie region with the same national statutory mandate, FIR funding role, and regulatory oversight of health establishments and medico-social services.
• Agence régionale de santé Hauts-de-France: Regional health agency for northern France with identical governance mandate. Faces similar medical desert and post-industrial health challenges, making it a directly comparable peer on policy execution.
• Agence régionale de santé Île-de-France: Regional health agency for Île-de-France under the same national HPST framework. Identical mandate — regional health planning, FIR allocation, establishment regulation — at much larger scale (12M+ population), making it the closest functional peer.
• Agence régionale de santé Grand Est: Sister regional health agency for the Grand Est region, exercising identical HPST-derived functions over planning, funding, and inspection across a comparable multi-department territory.
• Agence régionale de santé Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: ARS PACA executes the same regional health agency mandate across southeastern France. Comparable in coordinating hospital networks (AP-HM), EHPADs, and digital health platforms through its regional GRADeS equivalent.
• Agence régionale de santé Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Regional health agency for Nouvelle-Aquitaine with identical statutory functions: PRS implementation, FIR management, and regulation of health/medical-social establishments. Population (6M) and territorial mix (urban/rural) closely parallel Centre-Val de Loire's challenges.
• Agence régionale de santé Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: Sister ARS covering the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region with the same statutory mandate, funding role (FIR), and oversight responsibilities. Comparable size and population profile (8M inhabitants) make it a directly comparable operational peer.
• Agence régionale de santé Bretagne: Regional health agency for Brittany executing the same mandate — Projet régional de santé implementation, FIR allocation, and establishment regulation — over a population and territory comparable to Centre-Val de Loire.

Broad incumbents

• Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS): Independent national authority defining good practice, quality, and safety standards for healthcare. While ARS enforces regional implementation, HAS sets the frameworks — making it a broader incumbent with overlapping regulatory influence on the same healthcare establishments.
• Santé publique France: National public health agency coordinating epidemiological surveillance, prevention campaigns, and health monitoring. Works alongside ARS Centre-Val de Loire (and all other ARS) on vaccination, screening, and crisis response, with overlapping but broader national scope.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles4 records

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