IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini
IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini
Via Gerolamo Gaslini, 5 - 16147 Genova - Italy
1938
Pediatria - Materno infantile
Prof. Alberto Martini
The Istituto Giannina Gaslini, created out of an act of love and solidarity by Senator Gerolamo Gaslini, started its activity in 1938. Since 1949, the Founder has transferred all his property to the Fondazione Gaslini, a foundation created to support continuing development of research and health care at Gaslini.
The Istituto Gaslini was recognized as national public children’s hospital and research institute in 1956. The activities of Gaslini include health care, research, teaching, and continuing education of the hospital staff.
Research is a strategic objective of the Istituto and is mainly aimed at translating research results into the clinical practice. Integration among health care, research, teaching, and continuing education is a prerequisite to guarantee quality of care and excellence of services from all perspectives, namely: of patient safety, overall management of patient and family, early and effective healthcare services. All this is pursued taking into account more strictly managerial aspects such as efficiency and appropriate use of resources.
The Istituto Gaslini is a multidisciplinary, highly specialized reference centre with national and international catchment area. It is the only hospital in Italy providing specialist and sub- specialist care, both medical and surgical, for mothers and children. Therefore, it is a national referral centre for complex diseases affecting newborns, children, and adolescents requiring highly specialized treatment.
The Institute contributes to the implementation of the objectives of the Regione Liguria concerning hospital planning as it has a Pediatric Emergency Department with regional catchment area providing specialized pediatric care to patients from the metropolitan area.
The Institute has 20 interconnected buildings distributed over a 73,000 square meter area (15,000 square meters of green area) on a hill sloping down to the sea. The hospital staff members are 1,800, including 264 physicians and 845 nurses. Beds available for ward hospitalization, for day hospital admissions, and for day surgery, are more than 300.
On average, all hospitalizations are more than 29,800/year, and outpatient admissions over 536,000/year. Emergency Dept. admissions are over 37,000/year. More than 42% of patients come from all regions of Italy, mainly Sicily, Piedmont, Apulia, Campania, Lombardy, and Tuscany. Annually, 4,4% of patients come from abroad. The new Day Hospital and Outpatient Care building, opened in 2012, has five floors and covers a 6,000 square meter area.
Home care and hospice care represent the point of contact between hospital care and territorial medicine, helping the families face their problems and improving patients’ clinical pathways at Gaslini to support cases with chronic-complex diseases requiring palliative care in dedicated facilities.
The Gaslini meets the international excellence standards for safe health care delivery. The Institute has been accredited by Joint Commission International since 2007. It counts over 25 reference and highly specialized centres.
The Istituto Gaslini hosts facilities and staff of the University of Genoa under a formal agreement. Degree courses in Medicine and Surgery are held at Gaslini, and residency programs in pediatrics, neuropsychiatry, and pediatric surgery are also carried out.
Through collaboration agreements with institutions and health care facilities all over the world, the Institute promotes continuing education and training of staff of local children’s hospitals and is actively involved in many humanitarian projects, even in post-war areas. Patient and family-centered care is the approach adopted by the Gaslini.
The whole hospital staff contributes to the development of research programmes that are grouped into 5 lines, namely: innovative diagnostic-therapeutic strategies and rare diseases; pediatric sciences, surgery, and neonatology; rheumatology, immunology, and autoinflammatory diseases; hematology, oncology, and cell therapies; muscular and neurologic diseases.
The annual Impact Factor, an international bibliometric indicator, is over 1,550 with over 300 publications in international journals. The Gaslini has established collaboration agreements with over 250 national and international institutions.