Asp Messina, inaugurated in Patti the first Hub Community House of Italy: a model of proximity, accessibility and assistance quality

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Inaugurated a Pacts the new HUB community housemade with the funds of the national recovery and resilience plan. An important act for the evolution of the organizational model of proximity assistance, which optimizes the local socio -sanitary offer.

The structure acts as a single access point for prevention, care and rehabilitation activities and is aimed in particular to fragile people, suffering from chronic pathologies or in conditions of social unease. Conceived to integrate medical services and support services, community houses intend to facilitate continuity of care in the area.
In addition to the Councilor for the Regional Councilor for Healthcare, the ceremony was attended Daniela Faraonithe regional general manager of healthcare Salvatore Iacolinothe strategic direction of the ASP of Messina, also the representatives of the Regional School Office for Sicily, of the Order of Pharmacists of Messina, the Company Consultative Committee and the Civic Health Network, together with the Volunteer Services Center and the Diocesan Caritas of Patti. At the end of the institutional presentation, a guided tour was created in the internal environments, with illustration of the stations dedicated to home visits and telemedicine activities. The complex, divided into different functional areas, will offer customized medical consultancy and social support paths, without distinctions of age or clinical condition.

The initiative, thanks to the resources of the PNRR, si inserts in a larger program of strengthening of the territorial network aimed at reducing unnecessary hospitalizations. The Asp of Messina presented the first community house today in Patti and by March 2026 will inaugurate all the others and the community hospitals scheduled in Messina and its province.

Community houses – explains the regional health councilor Daniela Faraoni- They will be operational H 24 and this is also one of the central points of the new reorganization of the national health system” It was financed through the funds of the PNRR-Mission 6 Health.

The building that houses the new Patti community house develops on five levels -A basement and four floors above ground and insists on a lot of about 1,370 square meters “. Designed according to the HUB model, the structure is designed to offer a single, integrated and multidisciplinary access point to health and socio-assistance services. In the inside they operate general practitioners, specialists, nursing staff and social services operators, with the aim of guaranteeing a complete and coordinated person. of the spaces is divided into functional macro-areas, distributed on each level of the building, according to a logic of efficiency, proximity and integration between the various activities “. The interventions – explains the strategic management, composed of the general manager Giuseppe Cuccì, the administrative director Giancarlo Niuttathe health director Giuseppe Ranieri Trimarchi– have been completed with competence, punctuality and constant attention to the functional needs of the structure, guaranteeing high quality standards and in advance of the contractual times. The new community house is a model of proximity, accessibility and quality assistance of innovative health reference for the citizens of Patti and the area and looks with concreteness to the future of the territorial health system. It aims to optimize the local socio -sanitary offer and represented a concrete action of humanitarian medicine “.

Technical data sheet HOM Community HUB PATTI:
On the ground floor there are two fundamental areas for territorial assistance: the macro-area “proximity assistance”, dedicated to first-line health services. H24 or H12 medical assistance, nursing services, the single point of access (PUA) in the health and administrative field, as well as the counters and offices dedicated to social services, with the presence of social workers, operators of prevention and home assistance are located; and the “primary care” macro-area, reserved for integrated group medicine. Here the general practitioners operate (MMG), the pediatricians of free choice (PLS) and family or community nurses (IFOC), within spaces designed to encourage team work and the interdisciplinary approach to care. The first floor welcomes the Macro-Specialist area, dedicated to diagnostic services, clinics for basic diagnostics, a withdrawal area and spaces for specialist visits. These are accompanied by environments dedicated to non -clinical support functions, including reception, logistical premises and deposits for health and technical material. On the second floor the macro-area “General and logistical services” develops, which guarantees the daily operation of the structure. It includes spaces intended for the reception of users (such as the Cup and the administrative offices), environments reserved for health and non -health personnel (including changing rooms, relaxing rooms), logistical services (warehouses, archives, deposits) and technical rooms. The third floor is occupied by the “technical room” macro-area, and houses the service systems of the building, including the general technicians and those dedicated to the elevator, to support the entire plant infrastructure.