The general management activated, as part of the Covid emergency business plan, a new level of alert for the particular virulence with consequent high hospitalization of Covid -19 patients at the Policlinico Riuniti in November. “The 5th level – explain from the hospital – had been foreseen only upon the occurrence of exceptional epidemic conditions and represents a sort of general mobilization of specialized operating units: since the beginning of the pandemic two complex specialized structures such as Endocrinology, directed by Olga Lamacchia, and Rheumatology, directed by Francesco Paolo Cantatore, transforming their structure into a Covid ward, also favored for their location in the Infectious Diseases pavilion. The 5th level of alert it was in fact activated with the Covid nephrourology department coordinated by Giovanni Stallone, director of the UOC of Nephrourology. Now it’s the turn ofUOC to the Hospital Directorate of Gastroenterology.
The Department of Gastroenterology of the Policlinico Riuniti of Foggia, directed by Rodolfo Sacco (photo above), assumes a double role – they know from Riuniti –: following the indications of the general management following the study of the epidemiological situation of these intense weeks, a new and alternative has been prepared, offered to all gastroenterological activities through a complex organizational network “.
“A programming – reads the note from the polyclinic – which guarantees the continuity of care and care of patients for whom it is essential to maintain optimal control of the pathologies and which at the same time sets access to services dedicated to patients suffering from Covid-19 in need of adequate care with a dedicated path and staff organization. In fact, as early as November 13, the ward has welcomed positive Covid patients treated in the Emergency Department, involving the UOC of the prof. Sergio Locaputo, an integrated team of nurses and Oss from the UOC of Gastroenterology and Emergency Department and the support of organizational positions in the medical area.
In essence, outpatient visits and endoscopic procedures will continue to be usable as a normal activity of the ward for non-Covid patients without therefore interrupting routine activities, but the healthcare offer has been reshaped in light of the important concentration of coronavirus patients through the transformation of the hospitalization into a fully Covid operating unit by arranging the following form: 16 beds Covid from 8.00 on 24 November 2020; dedicated medical staff consisting of 10 medical executives already belonging to the UOC of Gastroenterology e 6 newly hired medical managers; strengthened the nursing staff reaching full capacity a 23 units; Enhanced Oss staff composed of 10 units of which: 3 in service at the UOC of Gastroenterology, 6 newly hired and 5 in the ER. Another 2 units will join for a total of 16.
All the resources and efforts put in place by the Policlinico Riuniti go in one direction: treating patients with chronic gastroenterological diseases and not with Covid-19 with all the precautions prescribed by the manual cases without the double role of the gastroenterological department compromising the standard of care always provided by the whole team”.
“Aggregating a Covid area to a department in full ordinary activity never blocked in all these months of pandemic with a separate path to guarantee services in safety is a complex and articulated operation – explains the general director of Policlinico Riuniti Vitangelo Dattoli – but which has its reasons for the will of the strategic management of the Polyclinic to change the face of the hospital company to respond to the health emergency in the greatest possible safety: Covid and non-Covid patients will continue to have health care as well as all the health workers who are available every day with their professionalism “.
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