The new Assistance and Urgency Centre, also known by its acronym Cau, came into operation yesterday 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 initiated by the Romagna Local Health Authority with the territory. It is located in the Ovidio Pavilion in via Ovidio, a territorial headquarters near the Emergency Department of the Infermi hospital, and is active with direct access seven days a week for 12 hours, from 8 am to 8 pm: it makes use of a dedicated medical-nursing team (with specific training and experience in the management of urgent health problems) and laboratory and instrumental diagnostic in-depth 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 paid by the Health Authority 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.
“The plan to strengthen local assistance is increasingly taking shape within a process of reorganization of places and greater integration of health pathways – underlines Mirco Tamagnini, director of the Rimini District -. This is why it is a very significant for our city which 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”.
In this regard, Mayor Jamil Sadegholvaad commented: “Together with the Local Health Authority, we are working to strengthen the multidisciplinary approach around the topic of health, which is accompanied by the macro-process for the creation and dissemination of health facilities in the area with the objective of bringing care closer to citizens’ homes, speeding up times and simultaneously reducing the overload of work in the emergency rooms. A planning that is therefore placed in an extensive framework that also includes the future three community homes 11 territorial hubs and other measures designed to strengthen home-based activities and the ‘neighbourhood’ vocation. This brings the number of Cau currently active in Romagna to 10, four of which are in the province of Rimini: Cattolica (which officially began operations on 18 December), Santarcangelo (operational since 15 January) and Novafeltria (active since 29 January).
On May 20th it will be Bellaria’s turn (with transformation of the current first aid point). In the second half of the
The Riccione and Morciano Cau centers will then open in 2024.
