The Fanano CAU aims to promptly respond to the needs of a territory, such as the mountainous one, where a good part of the population resides in difficult and remote areas, often far from provincial hospitals.
The CAU, inside the Community House in via Sabbatini 31, guarantees assistance 7 days a week from 8am to midnight with direct access. From 12pm to 8am it is necessary to call the Continuity of Care number (formerly on call) 800 032 032, active throughout the provincial territory since last summer: the doctors of the Single Continuity of Care telephone center take care of the citizen, providing the most appropriate.
The structure – as well as those already launched – was created in conjunction with the reform of the Emergency Department and the strengthening of territorial assistance in the Emilia-Romagna Region, in which primary care doctors and nurses trained to welcome and assist patients with health problems work. urgent but not serious health. These include, for example, mild trauma, superficial wounds, nausea or vomiting, joint pain. The complete list of symptoms and pathologies is published on the Modena Local Health Authority website (https://www.ausl.mo.it/centro-assistenza-e-urgenza-CAU) and on the Region’s website on the Frequently Asked Questions page:(https://salute.regione.emilia-romagna.it/emergenzaurgenza/domande-frequenti).
In the morning, visits by the General Director of the Modena Local Health Authority, Anna Maria Petrini, accompanied by the Health Director Romana Bacchi, the Director of the Pavullo Health District, Massimo Brunetti, and the Head of the Primary Care Department, Anna Franzelli. The Mayor of Fanano Stefano Muzzarelli also went to the CAU, bringing a greeting to the team of professionals in service (doctor, nurse and OSS of the Community House), who work in integration with general practitioners and paediatricians of free choice .
How to access the CAU – Assistance is guaranteed 7 days a week: direct access is provided from 8am to midnight, in order of arrival, with the exception of specific assessments by healthcare personnel which require a change in the order of access; from midnight to 8 am it is necessary to call the Continuity of Care number (formerly on call) 800 032 032. Please remember that during daytime hours it is always advisable to contact your general practitioner, pediatrician of free choice (or primary care doctors). group of the reference association) who, knowing the patient’s clinical history, will be able to evaluate, if necessary, referral to the CAU.
“The CAU represents the new interface of the mountain area’s health services, more efficient and tailored to the needs of our towns – states the mayor of Fanano, Stefano Muzzarelli -. The CAU will optimize human resources and give value to the many renovation works that we have been carrying out for years. Our administration will ensure compliance with the expectations proposed by the Modena Local Health Authority to continue to grow together, despite the major difficulties that the national healthcare system is facing. I thank the management of the health company who met the citizens together with the administration on Thursday and were present in Fanano today for the start of the CAU project. A big thank you to all the healthcare staff who work in Fanano and who give real added value to the system”.
“The new opening of the Fanano CAU offers the possibility of strengthening the network for responding to citizens’ needs, which sees general medicine at the forefront, the main and essential point of reference for citizens – adds the Director of the Pavullo Health District , Massimo Brunetti -. The CAU provides responses to low-complexity pathologies, while in the event of an emergency it is always important to call 118″.