Le Nuove Dimensioni Strategiche dell'ospedale di Eccellenza / The New Strategic Dimensions of the Hospital of Excellence

The volume's discussion focuses on structures with high complexity and intensity of care, identifiable as structures of excellence both for the quality of the clinical-care services provided and for the ability to develop advanced scientific research and produce innovation. Hospitals capable of acting as centers of excellence for the production and dissemination of advanced biomedical knowledge as well as for its widespread use in therapeutic-assistance practices will contribute significantly to the scientific and healthcare advancement of our country. From this observation comes the importance of being able to have methodological and instrumental supports useful for an effective conception of their architectural configuration from a typological, organisational-functional and technological point of view. In the specific discipline of hospital architecture, there is a widespread lack of design and guidance tools capable of interpreting and governing the numerous implications of biomedical innovation - in its various values __of advanced research, specialist training, diagnosis, treatment and assistance.