Fondazione Don Gnocchi
The Foundation was established almost seventy years ago by the Milanese priest Carlo Gnocchi. Initially its purpose was to ensure care, rehabilitation and social integration to mutilated people. Over time, the Foundation has expanded its scope, addressing also children and young adults with congenital or acquired disabilities as well as – in particular non self-sufficient – elderly and patients of all ages who require specialized and advanced neuromotoric or cardiorespiratory rehabilitation or people who have suffered severe brain injuries, who are in a prolonged vegetative state or terminally ill.
The Don Gnocchi Foundation offers its services under the accreditation scheme with the National Health Service (in addition to private and supplementary private business lines) in 28 residential facilities and about thirty ambulatory offices, active in 9 Italian regions. It also conducts scientific research and training, as well as projects of international solidarity - in the role of NGOs - in developing countries.
The objective of the Innovation Development Department in the Don Gnocchi Foundation is to guide and support the development of innovative patient services that are:
· High value, improve the relationship between benefits and costs;
· Sustainable, thanks to industrial partnerships;
· Wide accessibility, bringing benefits to more patients.