What we do

The Social Cooperative Rome Medicine, “ONLUS” is a non profit organization, whose head offices are located within Rome’s town hall IV district, 73 Bracco St, was founded in 1999, by the will of a group of sixteen family doctors working for one of Rome’s Public Health Districts ( ASL RMA /IV distretto), and serves the following areas: Montesacro, Talenti, Bufalotta, Colle Salario, Fidene).This group is officially recognized, and offers integrated welfare as well as general health services ( offering both training and health information) to various areas in Rome.
Presently the social Cooperative Rome Medicine is formed by 60 family doctors, some of who are in training, as well as by many collaborators and volunteers.
In March 2000 the “Consorzio Regionale di Sanità –Co.Re.San.- (Regional Consortium of Health)” was formed in association with two Lazio cooperatives.
In 2006 it contributed to the creation of a computerized and shared online system that provided health management and house calls assistance. Such system has as well been adopted by 10 partners to create the on line medicine sharing, as provided by the collective agreement of the National Health Service. In addition, the cooperative has obtained the Certificate of Quality System in conformity with regulation UNI En ISO 9001:2001 (ISO 9001). Such certification is released according to the technical regulation Sincert RT -04 and it is applicable to the following area:
“ Planning and delivering social welfare and health assistance for both house and territorial calls”.

Publications

The newspaper “FONENDOSCOPIO” is published since 1999. This publication deals with social welfare and it is freely distributed throughout the Cooperative to family doctor’s, surgical offices and, is also sent via mail on a six month basis, to the inhabitants of the Town Hall IV sector.

Projects

In 2000 the Cooperative completed a project called “Assistance to pilgrims of the year 2000 and experimentation of new models regarding continuous Health Services”.
Such experimental project was performed in collaboration with the Lazio Region councillorship for health care. The service engaged 23 unemployed medical doctors offering, continuous services throughout the entire year such as :after-hours and holiday care, and all day-24 hour assistance to registered patients who received excellent medical services by all the doctors that supported this project.

The following steps were created:
1) Four surgical centres, located within some Rome areas and linked to main pilgrims welcome centres.
2) One call-centre headed by two doctors that delivered 24 hour-day medical advise.

The doctors that work in these centres had available electronic clinical data with all the medical information regarding a specific patient, that was linked directly from the family doctors file, ensuring, if necessary, an “answer and go” service.
General medicine doctors, as well as those of continuous service involved with the project, were trained to attend territorial emergencies, following a refresher course dealing with “Basic Life Support”. They received a “BSL adult IRC” and an “AMET” certificate.
At the end of the project the Rome Social Medicine Cooperative organized an event to advertise and share the results obtained from this experience, with other medical doctors working with the IV district, who had not joined the cooperative.
In 2001 the Cooperative completed the project “Integrated Social Health” (Integrazione socio-sanitaria).
Such project compiled an entire database information to be shared with both ASL RMA house medical assistance and social services given by the Town Hall IV District. This project solved the problem of the irregularities encountered by previous systems that were used among operators by connecting the various territorial social health structures, making possible a more rapid and complete assistance to delicate patients.
From 2001 to 2002 the Cooperative established a service, called “ Seot Urbe” and developed a project in collaboration with Prof. Santini and all operating at S.Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome. During the development the project the doctors, and all the partners of the cooperative were able to share epidemiologic research regarding “cardiovascular risk factors” from patients between 20 and 50 years old.
The results of this project were published on a supplementary article on the magazine “Italian Heart Journal”.
From February 2003 up to today the Cooperative has developed a service called “House Hospital and integrated health house assistance”, so called “Virtual Hospital”.
This is an experimental project phase that was developed in association with the ASL RMA organization and lasted six months, involving 23 family doctors, partners of the Cooperative Rome Social Medicine and received “ Premio Alesini” mention.
Through time, this project has had a natural evolution and in October 2004 what is now called “ Virtual Hospital “, was founded. This service offered social health assistance, carried out at the patient’s home. It guaranteed excellent medical care and offered services such as nurse, physiotherapy and social assistance and education (personal and environmental hygiene, food preparation) plus the availability of the medical doctor and specialist calls.
From 2005 through 2007, within this contest, the Cooperative realized 12700 nurse cares, 15003 physiotherapy cares, 25208 hours supported by social operators. On December 31, 2007 the “Virtual Hospital” project phase reached its end. From January 1st 2008, a one year convention was signed with RMA extending the service to all family doctors of the IV District.

Fund Raising

In May 2006 a charity fundraiser event held at the opera house in favour of those patients admitted to the Virtual Hospital.
In December 2006 an awaken campaign as well as a donation request, were organized, contacting 55.370 inhabitants of the Town Hall IV district.
In March 2006,2007 and 2008 a donation of 5 per thousand was requested, as provided by current Italian tax law, in favour of the Cooperative.
In December 2007 an awaken campaign as well as a donation request to 30.000 of the Town Hall district inhabitants. Funds raised were used to provide specialist calls, requested by the “Virtual Hospital” project. In addition two ambulances, one of them furnished for medical care of patient to be submitted to a surgery at the Modena city Hospital.
In may 24th and 25th 2008 a day for the prevention of the abdominal aorta aneurism, was organized in Talenti square (Rome) with the sponsorship of the City Hall IV district and “La Sapienza” University of Rome, plus the general Hospital Umberto I.

Vocational Training

From 2004, training courses were organized and delivered to some Rome high schools. Topics such as general health and wellbeing for students, teaching and non-teaching staff, including first aid personnel (BLS).
From 2004 a free “Health Window” geared to some high school students, was opened.
In 2004 information and educational health courses were organized for a senior centre called Nomentano, located in Spallanzani street.
From 1999 a continued medical training program (ECM) was organized for medical members as well as for colleague doctors working for hometown IV District. Refresher courses were also organized.
From 2000 the formation trainer, already registered at the Lazio Region, is also provider of the Health Ministry.

Una nuova possibilità: L'Ospedale Virtuale

Nel IV Municipio del Comune di Roma (zona Montesacro, Talenti, Bufalotta, Fidene, Colle Salario) coincidente con il IV distretto della RMA è operativa dal 1 Febbraio 2003 un’ Assistenza Domiciliare Integrata assimilabile ad un’ Ospedalizzazione Domiciliare, denominata: ”Ospedale Virtuale” che vede affiancati, nella sua attuazione: le strutture territoriali della ASL RMA - IV Distretto, la Medicina di Famiglia convenzionata, attraverso la sua Cooperativa Sociale Roma Medicina ed il privato sociale, con il Consorzio Solco Roma attraverso le sue cooperative d’infermieri, fisiochinesiterapisti ed operatori domiciliari. Continua a leggere >>>    

Una reale possibilità per tutti i residenti nel IV Municipio del Comune di Roma!
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Ti informiamo che la nostra Cooperativa, vende tre pacchetti (Base, Silver, Gold) che potranno offrirvi: quattro incontri monotematici di argomento socio-sanitario, lo sportello salute, un corso BLS certificato.

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