Palliative care: Roma Cares delivers the keys of a Hyundai to the "Together in care" center for home careUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

The quality of service in the area has been strengthened for those most in need of care. The ceremony in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of AsRoma, Guido Fienga and the General Director of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, Paolo Sormani at CESA, Center for Elderly Health

Rome, 17 July 2021 - Affection, humanity and attention in a family atmosphere: this is how caregivers and relatives of patients describe their relationship with the team of the Palliative Care Center "Together in Care" of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.

To provide a further contribution to the quality of the home care service Roma Cares is now making a hybrid car available to healthcare workers which will serve to reach patients at their homes located in the districts of Rome and in the municipalities of Lazio. 

Upon delivery of the car keys, a white Hyundai, together with the CEO of AsRoma Guido hay and to the Club Manager Vito Scala, they were present Paolo Sormani, general director of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, the head of the "Together in the cure" palliative care center Maria Grazia De Marinis and the clinical manager Giuseppe Casale.

“We are happy to be able to make available to theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma a car at the service of citizens and thus give our contribution to the complex system of assistance to patients who benefit from palliative care. In this regard, I thank Hyundai for having supported Roma and Roma Cares in this initiative with one of its latest generation electric cars " has ofchiarato the managing director of AsRoma, Guido hay present at the delivery of the keys.

"We are united by the desire to take care of the weakest: thanks to the gift from Roma Cares of a car intended for home care in the Rome and Lazio area, the "Together in the care" palliative care center of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma takes it a step further - Said Paolo Sormani, general manager of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital at the delivery of the keys at the CESA Center for the health of the elderly - From today, doctors and nurses will be even closer to those who need specific attention in a particularly delicate moment of life. The car that Roma Cares has made available to us strengthens the relationship between Ucbm and As Roma and allows us to place the patient increasingly at the center of our care action".

To date, the Center for palliative care "Together in the care" of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma assists patients from Municipality IX of Rome (Eur, Spinaceto, Laurentino, Trigoria) together with numerous territories ranging from Municipality X (Ostia), VII (Cinecittà) to other areas of the East and South of the Capital, and will extend its action to patients throughout Lazio.

Thanks to the creation of important synergies within the regional health system with the Local Health Authorities and the numerous hospitals in the area, the "Insieme nella cura" palliative care center of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma strengthens the home care networki of Lazio increasing the offer of National Health Service e reducing waiting times for patient care.

Also, the website https://www.policlinicocampusbiomedico.it/centro-di-cure-palliative-insieme-nella-cura also allows individual families to get in touch with the Center by calling 06.225418610 (from Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 17.00) or by sending an e-mail to [email protected]