A new way of conceiving healthcare and socio-healthcare, improving patient care. The COT was inaugurated this morning Territorial Operations Centre of Crotone in via delle Nazioni, an innovative organizational tool aimed at strengthening and speeding up accessibility to health services in the Crotone area and create a more attentive care model to the needs of citizens.
The COT, financed with 240 thousand euros from PNRR funds and about 70 thousand euros of resourcesand the provincial health company, will play a fundamental role in coordinating assistance to people and in connecting the various services and professionals, identifying the most appropriate assistance path for the patient and reducing waiting times, thanks to a greater use of home care and with the help of technological innovation.
The extraordinary commissioner of the ASP of Crotone was present at the event Antonio Brambillathe consultant for the PNRR on healthcare construction to the President of the Region Licia Petropulacosthe medical director of the unit Lucio Cosentinothe director of the single district Pietro Brisindathe councilor for social services of the municipality Filly Pollinzithe vice president of the Province Fabio Manica and the COT staff, the team responsible for the PNRR and other figures from the general and health management of the Asp.
“Today we inaugurate the Cot of Crotone – stated Commissioner Brambilla – which It has the function of connecting the hospital level and the local services. We start with protected discharges, then we encourage the ongoing care of fragile subjects who, after the assessment preceding discharge from hospital, will be transferred to rehabilitation facilities. We are also working for structure the route to home of patients, so that hospital-territory continuity is achieved. Leaving first in Calabria – he added – also means testing the service, behind which there are many documents and IT tools and therefore being able to offer the Region and the other ASPs an assessment of the critical issues that can be found in this complex and innovative path”. The commissioner specified that the staff employed in the COT is mainly nurses: “We will use nurses who worked in the 118 operations center – said Brambilla – capable of follow the patient in the various phases of problem managementas they already have experience in taking care of people and in relationships with local structures”.
Petropulacos, who brought greetings from President Occhiuto, underlined that that of the COT of Crotone is the first concrete building construction of the PNRR, moreover within the established times. “These are challenging achievements from an organizational point of view – she commented – but they aim to ensure that fragile patients and their families do not fall into the holes that are often created in the passages between home, hospital and facilities. The mapping of good quality services that is being done – added the consultant – serves precisely to ensure that patients and family members do not feel lost and that they are directed and guided in transfers between the various levels of care”.
