Clinica San Francesco in the Newsweek World’s Best Hospitals 2021 ranking
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Another important outcome for the Clinica San Francesco.
Even for 2021, the Clinic, GHC (Garofalo Healthcare Group) centre of excellence and international reference point for robotic orthopaedic surgery, re-entered in the ranking of 2000 best hospitals in the world published by the famous American magazine “Newsweek”, rising to the 45th place – gaining six positions compared to the previous year – among the best Italian health facilities, out of a total of 108.
The ranking, realized by the American company ‘Statista’, examines the facilities from 25 countries, including, besides Italy, also United States, Germany and Canada. The research was based on three kind of sources: 1) opinion of experts – more than 74,000 among physicians, hospital directors and healthcare professionals participated in an international online survey -; 2) outcomes of patient’s satisfaction surveys and 3) KPI (Key Performance Indicators), the indicators that measure the hospital performances. The Clinic – first in Europe (and outside the USA) to introduce the robotic surgery for partial knee replacement and total hip replacement, respectively in 2011 and 2012, and first in Italy for total knee replacement, in 2017, thanks to the staff of Dr Piergiuseppe Perazzini, director of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Functional Unit – stood out for innovative approach in patient care and implementation of latest generation technologies.
Even in this side the Clinic was among the first centres in Europe to apply the Mako robot upgrade 4.0, becoming furthermore an European reference point for robotic hand and elbow surgery with innovative operations of metacarpal trapezius prosthesis, necessary in case of advanced arthrosis or rizarthrosis, performed by the Hand and Elbow Surgery staff. The Clinica San Francesco carries out an intense training activity for surgeons from all over Europe and since 2013 is European Centre for Robotic Orthopaedics (CORE – Centro di Ortopedia Robotica Europeo), since 2019 reference centre of Veneto Region for robotic orthopaedic surgery, and since 2021 reference centre for the Italian Hand Surgery Society (SICM – Società Italiana di Chirurgia della Mano).
«This is a great recognition for a smal facility as the Clinica San Francesco that is in a better position than other Italian hospitals, considered of excellence, and has managed to improve in just one year, despite the difficulties linked to the pandemic. The ranking – Dr Perazzini comments – expresses not only parameters communicated by the facility, but above all a patient’s approval rating, whose evaluation is based not only on successful outcome of operation, but considers also the favourable environment, care received by nursing staff and shows how quality and innovation are the objectives to pursue».
