ROME (ITALPRESS) – Enhance the importance of the contribution to the National Health Service by the private law component, with particular attention to the results of its activity from an economic, social and environmental point of view. This is the objective of the 2nd Aggregate Social Report of the Aiop (Italian Association of Private Hospitality) associated hospitals, which involved 326 structures and was edited by BDO Italia – Sustainable Innovation, presented at the Sala Zuccari of Palazzo Giustiniani in Rome. . The result is a “snapshot” of the ability of companies to be centers of social benefits and is, at the same time, a “description” of the contribution provided by the private law structures of the NHS in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, also in terms of reduction or suspension of hospitalization and outpatient activities, in the first 6 months of 2020. The AIO has 571 associated structures, for about 62 thousand beds, of which 56 thousand accredited. 89% of the associated structures participating in the Social Report are accredited with the NHS, and this translates into a percentage of approximately 90% of accredited beds. Services are provided to more than 900,000 patients, for over 8 million days of hospitalization and 31.8 million outpatient services, which do not concern users already hospitalized (of which 72% on behalf of the NHS). Healthcare facilities, in aggregate, incur approximately 2.7 billion euros as personnel costs. As for the capital endowments, the value exceeds 4.3 billion euros for tangible fixed assets, while it is 651 million euros for intangible assets. Private hospitals continue to invest in the improvement of structures, equipment and technology, with costs for ordinary and extraordinary maintenance equal to over 129 million euros for the structures in this sample and for structural investments with 210 million euros. The direct economic induced generated thanks to purchases from suppliers represents 57% of the value of production (5.1 billion euros) as the sum of the costs for the purchase of goods and services, raw materials and consumables, use of third party assets . As emerges from the 2nd Social Report, the national workforce of Aiop is over 72 thousand: 12 thousand are doctors, 28 thousand nurses and technicians and 32 thousand are support workers. 69% of all employees are female, 77% are hired for an indefinite period. “A historic result was the signing of the contract for non-medical private health personnel – underlines Aiop -. The commitment to human capital is also testified by the investments in young health professionals: over 3,700 reports internships and training initiated by the structures participating in this survey “. The President of the Senate, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, sent an institutional message: ‘Promoting a reflection on the role that private healthcare offers to the National Health System is essential in order to maximize the strengths of our integrated model of health care, which finds in the collaboration between public and private the key to guaranteeing the universality of treatments. For Barbara Cittadini, president of Aiop, “the 2nd aggregate social report was promoted in the full awareness that our associated structures, in addition to guaranteeing health services and services, produce a considerable induced not only of an economic and employment nature but, also, cultural, environmental and social. The study highlights the economic-social effects of both direct and induced activities, providing an overview of the ability of Aiop companies to be, as well as centers for the production of wealth, also reality able to create extended benefits for the territory by building a shared value between companies and communities in which they carry out their activities. Great evidence in the research was also placed on the assured support, with a great sense of responsibility, to the Services regional health care in terms of availability of Covid-19 beds for intensive care and for the acute phase, as well as the support provided for the continuity of care for ordinary patients “. (ITALPRESS). cga / sat / red 19-Apr-21 12:13
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