The territorial healthcare network of Alto Frignano is changing, as part of a broader plan regarding healthcare in the mountains, with a view to strengthening it. A project on which the Modena Local Health Authority is working with a process involving professionals, trade unions, associations and mayors, with the aim of guaranteeing services to citizens, but taking into account and enhancing the specificities of these territories, including the tourist vocation.
In the Pievepelago district, in order to provide a better healthcare response and also greater support for voluntary associations, it was an increase in nursing car coverage has already been launched since mid-April and is now present 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (previously active during nights and weekends).
This new organization allows us to strengthen the important contribution of the voluntary associations – AVAP Fiumalbo, AVSA di Riolunato and Misericordia di Pievepelago – which already ensure coverage in that area.
This consolidation of the emergency response is accompanied by the ongoing redesign of the “proximity care teams”: doctors and nurses are involved in the process, already within the Pievepelago Community House, also thanks to the introduction of new medical technologies they will be increasingly able to respond to citizens’ needs.
It was also in the Fanano area the nursing team was strengthened dedicated to emergencies, as well as the one present at the Fanano community house.
At the same time, medical assistance will be activated from May 1st which will cover both the outpatient activities on the structure, either tourist assistance during the summer season, and will guarantee the integration of night medical support at the Community Hospital located in the same location. Where deemed necessary, the 118 Emilia Est Operations Center will be able to activate the doctor on emergencies where support is required.
On the topic of emergencies, the objective in both territories is to improve the response to time-dependent pathologies, integrating proximity and continuity of care services with the network of the Territorial Emergency Service 118 and with the day and night helicopter rescue service. Furthermore, in the Apennines the vehicle is equipped with a winch capable of carrying out interventions even on paths and inaccessible areas.
“The Company always pays specific attention to the needs of the mountains – states Massimo Brunetti, Director of the Pavullo District – now the project evolves with the fundamental involvement of general medicine, also through an increasingly strong collaboration with the nurses – present both as home and community nurses – physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals, able to make a contribution alongside doctors. In particular on the topic of chronic conditions, which are a very important component of our patients: with the use of new proximity technologies and telemedicine it is now possible to carry out tests and report them remotely, as well as constantly monitor the most fragile patients.
We have worked to reorganize the response we give to people’s needs in a more effective, efficient and, above all, integrated way: it is a great opportunity to optimize assistance in mountain areas which have specific peculiarities that must be enhanced through ever greater integration of the different figures professionals”.
[25 aprile 2024]