History
The history of Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria Hospital, financed by a catholic institute called Opera Don Calabria, started in 1932 as an elder’s asylum. In the Forties it turned into an qualified hospital and in 1970 it was recognised as a public facility. Our Medical Oncology Division was created in 1995, the Department in 2001 and the Palliative Care Unit in 2007. Since 2018 it is accredited by IRCCS.
Profile
The Hospital has:
- 20 certified divisions with about 550 beds,
- 300 specialists, approx. 600 nurses and a total of non medical-staff of 1800,
- Technical equipment: PET, high definition TAC, MRI, scintigraphy; IORT for breast cancer, new generation RT
The Oncology Division has:
- 16 beds, 8 for acute (1 single room), 8 for palliative care (5 single rooms); 16 beds in D.H,
- 1 director and 8 oncologists, 20 nurses, 2 data-manager, 2 psycho-oncologist, 1 consultant psychiatrist.
Specialities
Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care; Cardiology, Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology; Medicine and Geriatrics, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics and Traumatology; Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ORL, Paediatrics, Pathology, Rehabilitation (medulla and cerebral-injured), Tropical Medicine, Urology; General, Vascular, Plastic , Breast, Thoracic Surgery.
Palliative and Supportive Care
Medical oncologists of our department coordinate a multi-professional team who take care of patients affected by more frequent cancers (weekly specific pathology meetings are programmed).
The Palliative Care Unit (PCU) comprises of an oncologist expert in supportive care, dedicated nurses, consultant psychiatrist and a spiritual assistant. In addition, there is regular collaboration between the anaesthetist experienced pain therapy, dietitian, physicists and physiotherapists, all highly specialised in palliative care. Our PCU gives particular attention to the optimal management of end-of-life symptoms. From 2021, the intra-hospital palliative care team was activated.
Last update: August 2024
