Ferrara From Monday 15 December the employees of Local health authority and university hospital they can indeed use a gym with the supervision of staff graduated in Sports Sciences, booking their training session (obviously outside working hours) in the gym of the Sports Medicine in via Bianchi, which will also remain open in the afternoon.
The initiative, innovative for one public administrationwas born as part of the membership of Ferrara’s health companies to the International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH), included in the health promotion program in the workplace of the Regional Prevention Plan 2021-2025 and in line with the standards aimed at promoting environments of healthy work and promoters of well-being.
The objective of the project is in fact to create a space intended for the promotion of psycho-physical well-being through the practice of non-competitive physical activity, with a view to promoting good practices oriented towards “health building” and the opportunity to enhance and optimize pre-existing safe and qualified corporate spaces.
The most suitable premises for the initiative, already equipped, present at the premises, were therefore identified Sports Medicine, and its availability has also been expanded in the afternoon, from 2.30pm to 6.30pm, during which company operators and professionals will be able to book access through a specific company application.
The scheduled activities will include postural gymnastics, joint mobility exercises, basic personal self-defense techniques, light functional training. Staff with a degree in Sports Science will supervise the activities carried out within the gym, guaranteeing high standards safety, professionalism and quality of training.
“It is a project in which we believe very much – explains Dr. Nicoletta Natalini, director of the Local Health Authority and university hospital company – which places the Ferrara healthcare companies at the forefront in terms of workplace well-being. I am convinced that the ‘company gym’ will also represent an opportunity for socialization among colleagues with positive repercussions on the quality of the work provided to users. I thank everyone for their hard work which has allowed us to achieve this important result for all operators.”
The activation of the gym is the result of a collective commitment, starting from the management and involving the inter-company group Healt Promoting Hospitals & Healt Service coordinated by Dr. Concetta Mazza, director of the inter-company operational unit Provincial Prevention and Protection Service and strongly supported by the manager of the Health Professions of the prevention area, active member of the group Dr. Antenore Roversi.
