Community houses, the-region state approves the operating guidelines, we go concrete

These are the guidelines for these new CDCs who should relieve many hospitals of many less serious patients and collect doctors in one point.

But it will take years why the project is complete.

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A sort of hub, in short, where they will find capacity and find the necessary coordination, explains the document approved by the State-Regions, “Both services provided directly by the Health Service and those provided by other actors such as local authorities, services of services and community, social networks and volunteering belonging to the third sector».

The declared goal is to lighten hospitals from white codes

It will now be up to the Regions themselves to make the guidelines approved on 9 September operational, starting Immediately to deal with a serious criticality, the consequences of the lack of staff

In the CDCs, the Hub and Spoke model identifies an HUB facility such as the reference center for the most complex health services and for continuity of care, with the medical presence insured 24 hours a day seven days a week. Spoke structures are smaller and widespread primary assistance points in the area, which offer basic services and act as a point of contact between the citizen and the health system, connecting to hubs for more complex cases. The doctors will be present h24 seven days a week in the hubs, while in the spoke 12 hours a day six days out of seven.

Will be The Healthcare Company to assign the doctors of the activity to the doctors of the activity with hourly performance in the CDC as well as service shifts.

The offices of continuity of care (former medical guard) from now on will be integrated into the CDC for the “deferrable” care needsguaranteeing H24 assistance in connection with the territorial operations center,

Be careful, though: In the CDC not all cases will be accepted: among the exclusion criteria listed in the guidelines, cases of chest pain, intense and unusual headache, polytrauma, acute neurological deficit and loss of knowledge