Idi Irccs: 35 million in technology and personnel to meet the challenge of sustainability
Councillor delegate Zurzolo: 'More than 2,000 people from all over Italy stream into our outpatient clinics and wards every day'
Balance sheet and financial sustainability, economic sustainability and operational sustainability are the main challenges that complex healthcare structures have to face in this period of overwhelming evolution of both the medical and financial sector.
Challenges that the Dermopathic Institute of the Immaculate Conception, Rome's historic dermatological hospital, is pursuing with increasing success, with a fundamental reorganisation operation now successfully concluded, after the management crisis that the IDI itself had to face in recent years.
The challenge of asset sustainability
These are challenges on which IDI's Managing Director, Alessandro Zurzolo, then makes a point: 'Capital sustainability,' he says, 'we have achieved it with our internal resources, by enhancing certain assets and finding agreements with financial creditors. To date, the Foundation has achieved an adequate net worth and, now that all financial debts have been repaid, a positive net financial position'.
The second area of intervention, that of economic sustainability, 'we have pursued it,' Zurzolo elaborates, 'by focusing on the consolidation of relations with the Region and the local health authorities, starting with the important commitment guaranteed in the Covid period to reduce waiting lists, on the expansion of healthcare services, and on the development of private and insurance activities: the growth of private revenues is a necessity for accredited private facilities like ours, which operate on a non-profit basis and according to universalist principles, treating everyone and all pathologies, but with limited budgets from the Regional Health System
Only through this additional flow of resources, in fact, according to IDI, is it possible to achieve economic equilibrium and to self-finance the indispensable and huge investments required to be able to offer quality healthcare also under the SSR system. The most significant testimony to the work we are doing is given by the more than 2,000 people who flow into our outpatient clinics and wards every day from all over Italy.
