Community homes and territorial health care: "From January 1st, a revolution in Sardinian health care"

There will be 45 community houses, 13 community hospitals and 16 territorial operations centers; then the hospital beds will be reorganized; the system will be fully integrated and everything will be monitored at every step. The key point is to bring treatments closer to citizens, therefore, to give concrete answers to the diseases, complaints, anxiety, agitation that explode every day in every corner of the island.

The health care reform will take off on January 1st, Solinas says, and "will help create, fix and develop the great Sardinian health network".

The pillars

A reform - the governor explained - made up of three pillars: a new governance, "which will lead the various healthcare companies to have as a commitment only the taking in charge of the patient, only the healthcare service, while all the administrative tasks will refer to a 'centralized company, which will be able to achieve economies of scale and above all free medical personnel from the bureaucracy that distracts them from their main mission, that of health ”.

Afterwards, the reform of territorial medicine will be implemented, "because if the possibility of having filters, of treating chronicity, of avoiding inappropriate hospitalizations is not returned to the territory, there will never be a balance between the hospital system and the territorial system".

Third: the reorganization of the hospital network, "with the most effective and efficient distribution of the beds on the different specialties".

The draft

No one has seen it yet, but the Councilor for Health Mario Nieddu assures: "We are completing it, as soon as it is finished, in a very short time, we will give it to all stakeholders, especially Anci and the Municipalities, for a extensive comparison. There will be an important change of pace, we are focusing on healthcare close to people ».

The numbers

The quantity of structures is established by the Agenas. «We will have a territorial operations center for every 100 thousand inhabitants; a community house every 35 thousand approximately (they are what today are called health houses, and we have several already active) and a community hospital every 120 thousand ”, underlines the commissioner. “Some structures already exist, others are to be restored and adapted, others will have to be built from scratch. For all this we will have the funds of the NRP ».

Even those who live in a small town, isolated and with bumpy roads, must find a reference and listening point close to home. "The community houses will be inhabited by general practitioners, pediatricians of free choice, specialists, nurses, social workers, psychologists," adds Nieddu.

The third step

Then the hospital network, in which bed standards must be respected (today 3.7 per 1,000 inhabitants), the minimum basins for each discipline and the drafting of regional pandemic plans, with mechanisms to expand the offer of intensive and sub -intensive in case of new epidemiological emergencies.

(Unioneonline)

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