The Regional Council of Piedmont today, Friday 19, approved, on the proposal of the councilors Icardi and Caucino, the rules for assigning regional refreshments for over a thousand affiliated Rsa and facilities for the disabled, minors, psychiatrists and the accredited addiction sector which, in the period from 21 February 2020 to 30 June 2021, suffered significant economic losses due to the pandemic.
This is an overall allocation of about 30 million euros, of which 19.50 million for the nursing homes, with the aim of supporting the continuity of the provision of residential health, social-health and social assistance services. , as required by regional law 3 of last January 26th, through tariff additions recognized to healthcare and socio-medical structures under contract or agreement, with regard to the period of the Covid emergency. The structures, especially those for the elderly, in fact, since March 2020 have had to face extraordinary expenses to protect guests and personnel from Covid as much as possible. Alongside these, the costs for integrating the staff are also high, while on the front of the beds, many have remained uncovered, both to ensure the isolation of positive guests, and for the impossibility of giving away new entrances.
«The Region does its part – observes the regional councilor for health, Icardi – to avoid that many structures fail or have to retaliate against families, with burdensome increases in fees. The huge costs that these fundamental affiliated health and social-health care realities have had to incur to adapt to the anti-covid security measures are there for all to see. Piedmont cannot afford to let the pandemic toll affect those who care for the elderly and those most in need of assistance. For this reason, a compensatory intervention as consistent as it was necessary was implemented, with precise rules of disbursement, in the face of due reporting ».
On the operational level, the mechanism for the provision of refreshments provides that the reference value of the tariff supplement per day of assistance is equal to 2.65 euros for residential facilities for the elderly, and 1.50 euros for those hosting people with disabilities, psychiatric pathologies and residential centers for minors, while one euro per day will go to integrate residential facilities for people suffering from drug addiction and semi-residential facilities for people with disabilities.
The contribution cannot exceed the reported expenses, which concern the sanitation of the environments, the purchase of personal protective equipment, higher costs for the staff employed, disposal of special waste and specific investments for the safety of guests and operators.
In the same session of the Board, the resolution was also approved which identifies criteria and methods for guaranteeing refreshments to those who have carried out the home service, a proposal put forward by the opposition force PD ..
“It deals with – highlights the president of the Piedmont Region Alberto Cirio – of a first significant step which will be followed by the approval of the administrative act for the refreshment points provided for by the law for the authorized structures and the new insertions, in compliance with the Covid regulations, in order to guarantee the sustainability of the residential system that hosts over 60,000 Piedmontese and employs over 40,000 people “.
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