Istituto Clinico Humanitas

Humanitas is a highly specialised hospital, research and teaching center. It is accredited by the National Health-Care System. Built around centers for the prevention and treatment of cancer, cardiovascular, neurological and orthopedic disease – together with an Ophthalmic Center and a Fertility Center – Humanitas also operates a highly specialised Emergency Department. Appointed as IRCCS by the Ministry of Health (an accreditation in the Italian system that acknowledges institutions focused on excellence in clinical care and research), Humanitas is a world-famous center of excellence for immune system related diseases, from cancer to rheumatoid arthritis. Humanitas promotes health, prevention and early diagnosis by means of innovative and advanced outpatient health care facilities. Diagnostic and therapeutic activities of the hospital meet patients’ needs at a local, national and international level. Healthcare, supported by the best specialist expertise and integrated by a multidisciplinary approach, is sustained by continual research activities aimed at improving and personalising care. Humanitas developed its clinical organization by establishing excellence centers for cancer, cardiovascular, neurological, orthopedic and ophthalmic diseases – besides a Fertility Center – where patients are assisted by multidisciplinary teams and dedicated organization. Humanitas is considered one of the technologically most-advanced hospitals in Europe. Among the most significant examples, last generation linear accelerators (TrueBeam) for radiotherapy, robotic surgical systems (the new frontier in minimally invasive surgery), last generation laser for ophthalmology, 5 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, including a 3 Tesla and an openbore NMR, 2 PET-CT. Humanitas is also equipped with an EOS, a newly-designed imaging system for 3D reconstruction with a sharply reduced X-ray exposure dose. Humanitas believes it is essential to associate organisational efficiency and clinical quality. This is why it was the first general hospital in Italy, and one of the few in Europe, to be certificated for quality by Joint Commission International (2002, 2006, 2009 and 2012). Humanitas is considered to be one of the four most innovative hospitals in the world by Harvard University and is a case study for its organisational model, which unites economic sustainability, development and social responsibility. Humanitas Research Hospital is the flagship of a hospital group also present in Bergamo, Turin, Catania and Castellanza (Varese).

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