The operation to revitalization of the hospital San Raffaele Arcangelo (formerly Fatebenefratelli) in Venice., a historic facility acquired on May 30 by Villa Salus Foundation. The hospital thus joins the entities managed by the Villa Salus Foundation owned by the Congregation of the Mantellate Sisters Servants of Mary of Pistoia., who already run the Mestre hospital Villa Salus and also acquired in August 2019 the management of the IRCCS San Camillo Hospital on the Lido of Venice., rehabilitating and revitalizing both health facilities. The idea now is to have all the facilities managed by the Foundation collaborate effectively. Just at St. Camillus, in collaboration with the former Fatebenefratelli, a few days ago the outpatient clinic was born. “Neurostim“, New state-of-the-art neurostimulation clinic for depression, addiction, and post-stroke and Parkinson’s rehabilitation (read here). The one being implemented at Fatebenefratelli will therefore be. a revitalization operation, after years of inaction long denounced by labor organizations, which aims to keep the presence of Catholic health care solid in Venice’s historic center by safeguarding the presence of a hospital with great historical value which plays a strategic role in supporting the local public health network, ensuring continuity of care and facilitating the care pathway for citizens. “We set out to restore and revive this historic Venetian hospital, which is an essential resource for the historic center and for so many citizens,” said Mario Bassano, chief executive officer of Villa Salus Foundation.
St. Raphael Archangel Hospital, with a staff of 183 employees-all of whom in the change of management retained their positions-and more than 20 freelance physicians, is an accredited and licensed facility for the provision of inpatient, rehabilitation, residential and outpatient services and has a total of 71 nursing home beds, 78 beds for Functional Recovery and Rehabilitation, plus 3 extra places in the Veneto region. It also has 15 beds of Community Hospital, 8 hospice beds and 4 beds dedicated to patients in Permanent Vegetative State. The hospital is also equipped with a bar service open to users and visitors, a modern rehabilitation pool, Also accessible for external users, integrated into functional recovery pathways and a structured occupational therapy program aimed at inpatients, designed to stimulate the recovery of personal autonomy and to promote mental and physical well-being in a serene and welcoming atmosphere. In the area of fragility support, the facility then offers by 40 years also an activity dedicated to alcology, with paths of diagnosis, treatment and accompaniment for people with alcohol abuse problems, in close synergy with territorial services.
All activities are carried out in keeping with the religious mission that inspires the management of the facility, promoting a care of the person attentive to the physical, psychological and spiritual needs. The hospital provides a wide range of specialized outpatient services. The currently active branches are: Allergology, Laboratory Medicine, Cardiology, General Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Endocrine, Exchange and Nutritional Diseases, Geriatrics, Occupational Medicine, General Medicine, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Otolaryngology, Psychiatry, Urology, Dermatology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pneumology, Radiology and Diagnostics, and Pain Therapy. In virtuous synergy with other facilities managed by the Foundation, including the Santa Marina Outpatient Clinic, existing activities will be gradually strengthened and further qualified with the start of the new management, which intends to operate with a view to continuity and, above all, in full consistency with the religious and humanitarian values that have always characterized the facility, placing the centrality of the person at the heart of every care process.
“The acquisition of the Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Venice,” explains Sister Giuseppina, president of the Board of Directors of the Villa Salus Foundation. – took place to make more tangible the values and vocation on which Catholic health care and our being its operators are based: centrality of the person, sacred value of life, preference for the poor and areas of social distress, accompaniment in suffering and death, solidarity, but also and above all responsible management of resources. The acquisition of this health care facility therefore represents for us not only a management commitment, but above all a moral responsibility: that of preserving and enhance the legacy of Catholic health care, continuing with consistency and continuity in the wake of an inspiration that puts man in all his frailty at the center,” he says, explaining that the facility combines clinical excellence and evangelical inspiration. “In this sense we make our own the words of the Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, who recalled how ‘Catholic health care facilities must be a concrete sign of God’s love for every human being, especially in times of greatest vulnerability.'” Assured therefore continuity not only operational, but especially of values, according to the charism of the Mantellate Sisters Servants of Mary of Pistoia: “A health work,” Sister Josephine concludes, “animated by a spirit of service, listening and mercy.
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