The facility is a ESMO-certified center. – European Society for Medical Oncology, with the title “Designated Center of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care” accredited with the Regional Health System.
For the fifth consecutive year, the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) has awarded San Raffaele Group hospices the title “Center for Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care.”, the highest award that the European Society of Medical Oncologists grants to a limited number of centers considered to have a very high level of care delivered to the cancer patient.
Obtaining this prestigious certification were the hospices in Rocca di Papa, Montecompatri and Cassino. The title, which will be valid for the three-year period 2022-2024, once again rewards the growth path undertaken by the San Raffaele Group, aimed at the validation and certification of diagnostic/assistance processes that see the patient and his or her real needs at the center of everything, with a view to an increasingly patient-oriented medicine.
The winning idea was to create a real network, linking the time of chemotherapy treatment and medical care to the palliative care phase-from a geographical as well as an operational point of view-creating an integrated care network between the Medical Oncology Operating Unit of Tor Vergata University and San Raffaele.
The international recognition thus certifies the efforts made in the implementation of a program of care, now also endorsed by the scientific literature, which contemplates taking care of the patient and his or her family throughout the biological evolution of neoplastic pathology: from diagnosis to staging, from disease typing to specific therapies and then to palliative care.
In addition, the Department, by virtue of the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ is a training site for residents belonging to the university’s School of Specialization in Palliative Medicine and Palliative Care.
