Rimini: the new CAU opened in the Ovidio Pavilion with direct access 7 days a week

The CAU – Assistance and Urgency Center in via Ovidio has opened in Rimini. Tamagnini: “Crucial service in strengthening local assistance, another significant step for the city in close synergy with the Municipality”

The new Assistance and Urgency Centre, also known by its acronym CAU, came into operation on Monday 29 April in Rimini, a fundamental piece of the path to strengthening and strengthening local healthcare, as well as the optimization of healthcare services for the community launched from the ASL Romagna with the territory.

The CAU is located in the Ovidio Pavilion in via Ovidio, a local office near the emergency room of the Infermi hospital, and it is active with direct access seven days a week for 12 hours, from 8am to 8pm: makes use of a team mdedicated medical-nursing (with specific training and experience in the management of urgent health problems) And of laboratory and instrumental diagnostic in-depth analysis tools, as per regional regulations.

A structure (the spaces are developed on a single floor for a total surface area of ​​approximately 250 m2), designed with the aim of extending the healthcare network by responding effectively and promptly to the needs of patients who require assistance for urgent, low-complexity problems. The cost of the intervention to be borne by the Company is approximately 300 thousand euros, a sum to which must be added the expenses for the arrangement of the external areas which will continue during the summer and for the construction of a new car park in compliance with the current serving the Emergency Room, and for the construction and delimitation of the ecological island.

Goes on in this way the reform of the emergency emergency and the strengthening of territorial assistance, whose strategic objective is the strengthening of the primary care system to guarantee local services, enrich the responses at territorial level, treat the needs in more adequate settings of health which determine the so-called ‘improper access to emergency services’, making access to the emergency room more appropriate. The CAU guarantee responses to urgent episodic needs in close connection and strengthening of the network of general practitioners and paediatricians of free choice, in order to guarantee the necessary responses with a view to continuity and integration of care.

“The plan to strengthen local assistance is increasingly taking shape within a process of reorganization of places and greater integration of health pathways – points out Mirco Tamagnini, director of the Rimini District -. This is why today is a very significant day for our city, which after the activation of the COT marks another important stage in the path designed by the regional level and which we are also carrying forward in close collaboration with the Municipal Administration, which I also thank you on this occasion. CWith the opening of the CAU in via Ovidio, where doctors and nurses specially trained to accommodate this type of patient work, a crucial component of this design is added within an area already dedicated to local services, close to the emergency room but outside the Infermi hospital. A pillar of a proximity healthcare model, which also includes the three future community homes, territorial hubs, home-based activities and other important initiatives, designed to implement the care network and to provide support to basic medicine in order to guarantee citizens have adequate and fast access to care thanks also to an expansion of facilities and an increase in the efficiency of the care organisation. With a service open seven days a week, from 8am to 8pm, with free access, we provide a concrete response to people who need assistance. And we are constantly monitored on this aspect by our General Director, as already happens for the other active CAUs. Nor is the choice to activate it at the end of April by chance, during the spring ‘long weekends’ which traditionally attract many people to the Riviera and above all in view of events characterized by thousands of presences such as Rimini Wellness and then the summer, with the influx of tourists. We have given priority to making an important service available to citizens as soon as possible and I feel heartened now to see that everything is in place and the functionality of the spaces, just as it was nice to see everyone’s collaboration towards this objective . For my part, therefore, a heartfelt thanks is due to all the operators in the various sectors, crucial in achieving this concrete result, and in particular to Dr. Antonella Dappozzo, Director of Primary Care”.

Before cutting the ribbon, the new CAU of Rimini received the blessing from the deacon at the Infermi Hospital, Roberto Conti.

The number of CAUs currently active in Romagna thus rises to 10, four of which in the province of Rimini: Cervia and Cattolica (which officially began their activity on 18 December) Santarcangelo, Cesenatico and Mercato Saraceno (operational from 15 January), Ravenna, San Piero in Bagno and Santa Sofia (opened on 22 January) and Novafeltria (active from 29 January ).
The Cesena CAU will then come into operation on Monday 6 May, then on 20 May it will be Bellaria’s turn (with transformation of the current First Aid Point). In the second half of 2024 the CAUs of Riccione and Morciano will then open (the aim of ASL Romagna is to open 21 CAUs throughout the Romagna area).

Access to the CAU in Romagna to date

From 18 December to 28 April there were a total of 30,268 accesses to the active Caus in Romagna (in particular 2453 in the last week of the survey, from 22 to 28 April): 5494 in Cattolica; 4232 in Cervia, 4404 in Cesenatico, 7368 at the CMP of Ravenna, 1639 in Mercato Saraceno, 706 in Novafeltria, 517 in San Piero in Bagno, 5492 in Santarcangelo and 416 in Santa Sofia.

What is a CAU?

The CAU, Assistance and Urgency Centre, is a local health facility to which citizens can turn for urgent, episodic health problems with low healthcare complexity.

What does a CAU provide?

Medical examination
Certifications
Pharmacological treatment as needed
Prescription of therapy for new onset pathologies or essential therapies
Minor surgical procedures (e.g., sutures, dressings)
Assistance and specialist services for traumatic events.

Citizens who access the CAU are welcomed by the nurse who proceeds through a structured interview to evaluate the expressed health need, followed by a medical examination and any further diagnostic investigations. The CAU doctor, if necessary, will prescribe specialist services to complete the diagnosis. The outcome of the clinical-care process carried out at the CAU is available in the citizen’s Electronic Health Record. Once the prescribed in-depth services have been carried out, the relevant report can be evaluated by the General Practitioner or the Freely Chosen Pediatrician, the references for each citizen assisted, without having to return to the CAU.

Is the ticket to the CAU paid?

The visit and some diagnostic tests offered in the CAU (for example ECG and some blood tests) are free for all resident and/or assisted citizens of the Emilia-Romagna Region, while for all others the visit involves a cost contribution of 20 euros to be paid to the doctor who will issue a specific collection receipt. Further specialist services, prescribed by the CAU doctor for diagnostic completion, are paid by the citizen with the relevant ticket if due based on the exemptions held. It should be noted that for resident citizens, specialist services to complete diagnostics relating to renal colic and traumas occurring in the previous 24 hours are not subject to payment.

When to contact the CAU?

It should be noted that in the event of serious symptoms such as chest pain, breathing difficulties, unusual headaches, severe abdominal pain and symptoms attributable to an acute neurological disorder, it is necessary to continue calling 118 and seeking emergency care.

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