Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale has as its mission the enhancement of the public hospital network as a reference point for the population of Italian-speaking Switzerland.
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Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale is a public multi-specialty hospital with modern infrastructure and state-of-the-art medical technology.
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A multisite hospital. This is the founding characteristic of EOC and at the same time its strength, to be a diffuse and integrated hospital reality, with sites located throughout the canton.
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Useful information, training, and services for health professionals.
Go to the sectionEach staff member, with his or her specific role, contributes to growing the EOC's capacity to take full charge of the patient and care for the population. In a unique team effort.
More than 900 active physicians within the EOC's 7 locations are on the front lines every day to ensure that the population receives the medical care they need-both outpatient and inpatient-and to make concrete contributions to research and training.
More than 2,000 nurses are operational in the EOC, representing the largest professional category within it; these professionals play a key role both from the point of view of care, for which they are responsible on a daily basis for its proper implementation, and from the relational point of view, as true "human bridges" in the hospital-patient relationship.
More than 800 people at the EOC are employed in the administrative sector. From staff recruitment to patient reception, from accounting to management activities-these are just some of the tasks entrusted to these employees who, behind the scenes or in direct contact with patients and their families, work tirelessly to ensure an optimal EOC experience.
The EOC relies on the important work of more than 600 people who take the field with a thorough hotel approach, ensuring meals and hygiene standards that allow the patient to be safely welcomed, comfortable but not forgetting taste; the work of these professionals is central to the patient's healing process.
Hygiene and safety are elements on which there is no compromise in the health-hospital sector. This is well known by the 200 industrial services employees who, with their important work focused on laundry and sterilization activities, ensure the necessary hygienic and sanitary conditions on a daily basis.
The EOC is also a facility in step with the times. This is thanks to the 96 technical service employees, who are daily engaged in building maintenance, repair work and, more generally, the all-round care of the buildings. A central task guaranteeing safety and quality for all.
Technology is making great strides, and this, in medicine, is as true as ever. However, knowing how to use it well is essential for maximum patient benefit. The EOC has 800 professionals in-house who master the subject by ensuring, e.g., the conduct of tests, preparation and maintenance of medical devices, equipment and instrumentation necessary for optimal patient care.
Coordinated electronic patient record management, electronic medication prescription, tablets in the ward, etc., no area of activity has escaped digitization. Within the EOC, there are a hundred ICT specialists working on these issues, developing, programming, testing and implementing applications and IT services aimed at clinical, business and research activities. A challenging activity, a team effort: this is ICT at the EOC.
Building an empathic relationship with the patient and family members, collaborating with caregivers and the external network, ensuring useful social information, organizing discharge from the hospital by weighing everything (e.g., need for care, degree of autonomy). A crucial job and an ever-changing challenge for the caregiver in search of the right solution for the individual patient.
Passing on one's knowledge to others, knowing how to put one's experience on the table so that it becomes a shared heritage, being open to confrontation in a constructive way. This is the principle behind the teaching activity at the EOC, which moves its steps to make people grow, with the goal of always doing better for the good of the patient.
Each year, numerous volunteers and community service staff have an enriching experience at the EOC that allows them to get to know each other and get involved in a collaborative team. There is a variety of roles to suit personal schedules, abilities and interests.
The English version of this page was created with the aid of automatic translation tools and may contain errors and omissions.
The original version is the page in Italian.
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