There Healthcare comes closer to citizensreducing spending and pressure on hospitals and ensuring the coordinated development of community care. Tuesday 14 May at The COT will be inaugurated at 11amthe territorial operations center of Crotone, the first activated among the twenty-one planned in Calabria by the Regional Operational Plan of
PNRR, approved by the governor Roberto Occhiutoas commissioner ad acta.
The structure of Crotone and the one nearing completion a Mesoraca, constitute the two COTs foreseen by the PNRR as regards the Crotone provincial health authority, led by the extraordinary commissioner Antonio Brambilla.
Funded by the PNRR, the COT will carry out the coordination function of taking charge of patients and connection between services and professionalsthrough an innovative organizational model, in order to ensure continuity, accessibility and integration of health and social care, ensuring standards of interoperability and
the interface with hospitals and the emergency-urgency network.
The aim of the COT is to guarantee a new network organisation, where the services and professionals of the system are connected, integrated and available to the population in local structures, designed for multidisciplinary management. The patient will therefore be able to follow a defined care path, which will accompany him from the beginning, starting from the general practitioner, up to discharge and post-hospitalization and will also be followed in follow-up and rehabilitation.
Furthermore, the territorial operations center will provide information and logistical support to the professionals of the network, regarding the district activities and services, as well as dealing with the monitoring of patients in home care, also through telemedicine tools and management of the technological support platform for taking charge of the person, in order to collect and classify needs.
The Crotone COT was born from the renovation of part of the building that houses 118, some clinics and the CSM, in via delle Nazioni Unite, in the Tufolo district. The structure has suitable dimensions and a strategic position, being in a peripheral neighborhood, with direct entrance from the main road and being served by public transport.
It has a size of over 130 net square meters, of which approximately 75 are reserved for the coordination and monitoring rooms and the IT technical office. The renovation and adaptation works of the rooms and systems, for which European resources amounting to approximately 170,000 euros were usedstarted in June 2023 and ended in March 2024.
The interconnection interventionsi.e. software platform, telephone exchanges and VoIP telephones, were created thanks to 70,000 euros of PNRR financing it’s at approximately 140,000 of Asp funds of Crotone.
The provincial health authority also provided, with its own resources, the maintenance of the air conditioning system, the supply of work stations, telephone equipment, peripherals and software, the general commissioning of the activities, the network connections and the supply of an uninterruptible power supply for the emergency line, in support of the generator set.
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