New confirmation of improvement for regional healthcare, even if, as Health Councilor Riccardo Riccardi reiterates, “there is still a lot to do”. The comfort is that “the path is the right one”, he adds. Yesterday, in fact, the “report card” of the regional health system drawn up by Crea Sanità of the University of Tor Vergata was made known, a report now in its twelfth edition. Well, this study too, like that of the Sant’Anna School of Pisa published the previous day, confirms the improvement in the health indices of Friuli Venezia Giulia, which rises by 0.8 compared to last year and goes from 0.35 of 2017 to 0.50 of 2024.
THE EXCELLENCES
We enter excellent performance at 0.51% and this indicates that, at least according to the criteria adopted by Crea, Friuli Venezia Giulia is not far from the most valuable part of the ranking, where this year Veneto is found with 0.60, Piedmont with 0.55, Tuscany with 0.53 and Trentino-Alto Adige with 0.52. A score whose goal, in any case, is 1. The critical issues identified by Crea partly overlap with those placed in the red zone by the Sant’Anna report, because the Tor Vergata university also detects a deficiency in the implementation index of the oncology network and in the emergency rooms, in particular for the rate of access, which shows inappropriate use of that service. In practice, too many white and green codes. Among the critical issues Crea adds the implementation rate of the electronic health record.
THE SOCIAL ASPECT
As for the social aspect, there are two critical items: the rate of disabled and/or elderly people who receive home care integrated with health services and the rate of weak or at-risk people, such as the elderly and the poor, who receive interventions for social integration. Regarding this dimension of the system, Tor Vergata’s reading differs from the Sant’Anna report, which attributes indicators in the green zone to home care and hospital-territory integration. The readings, naturally, are affected by the different parameters that the studies take into consideration, so much so that Tor Vergata itself then promotes Friuli Venezia Giulia for residential social and healthcare assistance for non-self-sufficient over 75s. In any case, integrated territorial assistance is the crucial game underway, as Riccardi highlights: «On these issues in particular, also in light of the review of the organizational system that the regional health system will have to launch, we are building an assistance network territory which will have to respond to these needs by intervening in an organic way on the local reality”.
THE NOMINATION
For example, the appointment of the director of the Soc of «Territorial Geriatrics» carried out in recent days by Asufc goes in this direction. Not least under observation by Crea is the impact of healthcare consumption on consumption and total healthcare expenditure per capita, findings on which, according to the department’s reading, the age of the regional population weighs. «Large systems – adds councilor Riccardi – move at speeds that are not perceptible to everyday glance. For this reason, the prospective vision that the Crea studio offers us is decisive with respect to any controversy. Only with an effective reorganization will we guarantee a future for healthcare. From today we cannot take a step back and choose the path of organized efficiency, participation and responsibility.”
HEALTHY OLD PEOPLE
In positive territory, among others, an increase in the healthy aging of the over 65s and the rate of those who have been hospitalized outside the region for low or medium intensity services. «This means, concludes Riccardi, that we are able to contain the emigration of those seeking an answer to their health needs».
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