Rome, 14 July 2016 – The Board of Directors of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma appointed the new Director General of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital: it will be prof Maria de la Viesca.
Maria de la Viesca, doctor, former consultant of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma from 1990 to 2004, she was a member of the university's board of directors from 2001 to 2004. Deputy director of the University Clinic of Navarra from 1984 to 2003, she oversaw the accreditation process at the Joint Commission International (achieved four times by the University of Navarra) between 2004 and 2016 as Director of the Quality and Safety Area.
“The reality I arrive in has developed a maturity in patient care that is not the result of initial impulse and enthusiasm, but is a way of working and an interest maintained over time. It is a general and constant effort in the application of scientific evidence and dedication to patients”, he has declared Maria dela Viesca. Looking to the future, the new DG promises to “intensify the participation of all those who work in the Polyclinic and of the patients. Our most imminent challenge – he continues – is to work with greater intensity precisely with the patient. We consider your participation essential to improve hospital care”.
“The new General Manager – commented the President of Ucbm, Felice Barela - has known our University Hospital well since its foundation. Now he becomes a full protagonist of its development and growth, contributing with his vast experience and expertise on all issues related to the quality and safety of care. Areas that are particularly close to our hearts because they are in line with our mission and are among the requirements for accreditation by the Joint Commission International, obtained in 2014, also in view of its renewal next year. I would like to thank prof. Gianluca Oricchio, who is about to conclude his mandate as Director General: in these eight years he has been passionately committed and has made an important contribution to this institution".
The new General Manager will enter effective as of October 1st. Gianluca Oricchio, General Manager of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital since 1 January 2009, appointed again in May 2016, had already communicated the remission of his mandate, scheduled for 30 September. “I believe the time is ripe for the succession with a person of high professional and academic standing like María de la Viesca - he said ear -. For my part, I think I have accomplished an important mission that I happily took on at the beginning of 2009: a journey has now been completed. They were really beautiful and meaningful years for me. The solution of two difficult economic crises, the first JCI accreditation, the decisive improvement of all the outcomes witnessed in the National Outcomes Plan, the managerial growth of the top figures and the development of Private Medicine on the domestic and international markets are facts that bear witness to the commitment of all of us. The human wealth with which I will leave this office is truly priceless: for this I will always remain grateful to this institution".
