The Provincial Health Authority of Messina announces with satisfaction the excellent restart of the Emergency Department of the Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto Hospital. Since the reopening, which took place in the presence of the President of the Region Renato Schifani and the Health Councilor Daniela Faraoni, 3,762 accesses have been recorded in three months, confirming the strong demand and the centrality of the facility for the community and the territory. At the beginning we were forced to turn externally, faced with the clear impossibility of finding emergency room doctors through ordinary competitions, which were abandoned or with insufficient results compared to the needs. It was a necessary choice to guarantee the continuity of the service and the safety of care.
Today, thanks to this intervention and timely organizational work, the Emergency Department is fully operational 24 hours a day and is recording improving indicators: faster take-in times, greater continuity of care and positive feedback from citizens.
We therefore remember that the medical management of the Emergency Department for one year, following a tender procedure, was entrusted to professionals with a freelance relationship with the cooperative company “CMP Global Medical Division” of Granarolo (Emilia-Romagna). The cooperative has ensured a complete and continuous medical service, with two 24-hour lines, contributing significantly to the restoration of an essential service for citizens. The ASP of Messina guaranteed nurses and social-health workers, making the most of internal resources. The Strategic Management of the ASP of Messina, composed of the general director Giuseppe Cuccì, the administrative director Giancarlo Niutta and the health director Giuseppe Ranieri Trimarchi, highlights: “We are very satisfied with the results achieved in recent months. People give us an extremely positive opinion, which rewards the excellent internal organization and the quality of the welcome offered by our structure. We will continue to invest in staff, processes and technologies to guarantee increasingly timely, safe and close to citizens’ needs services. The solution adopted not only does it return an essential structure to the territory, but it lays the foundations for a more resilient healthcare system capable of responding effectively to local emergencies. This project improves the quality of care and strengthens collaboration between public and private bodies, creating a virtuous model. The commitment and dedication of all the parties involved confirm the ability to innovate and respond to the needs of the community”. “In the coming months we will proceed – adds the Strategic Management of the ASP of Messina – with the opening of new departments, so as to make the Emergency Department even more effective and operational. We renew our commitment to concretely strengthen the services and find the necessary resources to further improve the quality of care. Our action plan is based on some clear priorities: strengthening the clinical offer, with the progressive activation of new services and paths dedicated to frailties, to guarantee continuity of care from triage to protected discharge; investing in people, increasing staff numbers where necessary, enhancing skills, promoting continuous training and organizational well-being; improving the organisation, with streamlined processes, flow management, rapid management and constant monitoring of performance indicators and perceived quality; developing technologies, introducing digital solutions for the management of emergencies, rapid diagnosis and information integration between departments and the territory, finding and optimizing resources, through responsible financial planning, access to dedicated funds and strengthening synergies public-private that produce real value for citizens.
These actions aim to make care more timely, safe and close to people’s needs, with particular attention to equity of access and long-term sustainability. We want every patient to find a reliable point of reference in our emergency room and in the network of departments, capable of responding with competence and humanity. We will continue to work with determination to transform resources into measurable results and results into trust.” The reopening is the result of the will and determination of the Strategic Management of the ASP of Messina, following construction and plant engineering interventions carried out under the supervision of the Technical Office Complex Operational Unit, directed by the engineer Salvatore Trifiletti. The total surface area is approximately 900 m2, with redistribution and restyling of the internal spaces, creation of 8 OBI (Short Intensive Observation) places, redevelopment of the emergency rooms and waiting areas (patients on stretchers and external staff), including the toilets. Medical gas systems built from scratch in the OBI area; verification and restoration of the correct functioning of electrical, water, air conditioning and medical gas systems. For safety: a new video surveillance system has been installed to prevent episodes of violence. External areas equipped with a new car park with approximately 60 parking spaces and an area dedicated to waste storage.
