Mission and values
MISSION
A very important aspect of everyday work is to instill confidence and safety in people who have a cardiovascular problem.
Monzino is a hospital tailored to the person, which guarantees a relationship "one by one" with the doctor who follows the patient in his path of care with the support of an experienced nursing team.
A distinctive and characterizing philosophy, that is due to the intuition of the founders and consolidated in an increasingly structured system of clinical policies and practices, allows to transfer in daily practice the values that inspire the activity: the high specialization, research, interdisciplinarity and continuity of service aimed at keeping the focus on the person.
The results of the research are transferred to the patient in the shortest possible time and one of the most important challenges is to ensure that the intervention time becomes shorter and the therapies become more tolerable.
At Monzino, a person with cardiovascular problems finds a human and welcoming environment and a team capable of accurately identifying the best cure for him or her.
OUR VALUES
- Respect and attention to the person
- Appropriateness of care
- Diagnostic and therapeutic research and innovation
- High specialization
- Professional and managerial enhancement of staff and business organisation
OUR ACTIVITIES
CLINICAL ACTIVITY Every year a high number of diagnostic examinations, surgeries and invasive procedures are performed with a high level of success and a large amount of emergency accesses are managed. Monzino carries out prevention and awareness programs for cardiovascular health and promotes psychological well-being.
CLINICAL RESEARCH The clinical research is integrated with basic research to facilitate the transfer of laboratory studies, performed on cellular systems and both animal and artificial intelligence models, to new approaches to diagnosis and care for patients. Clinical research has the exclusive focus on cardiovascular field, from clinical and interventional cardiology to surgery, with particular attention to new imaging techniques and the development of biomarkers for the identification of high-risk patients.
TRAINING The highest level of excellence in diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases is ensured by a continuous medical education program.
CREDITS & AWARDS
Monzino has obtained the certification of the Environmental Management System in compliance with the ISO 14001:2015 standard, i.e., the validation that a system of working and management procedures, resources, tools has been created to ensure compliance over time with all laws and environmental conditions applicable to the hospital's activity. Specifically Monzino, in the interest of the community and patients, prevents pollution for all environmental aspects, among which the most significant are solid and liquid waste, emissions into the air and atmosphere, water discharges and noise. The field of application of the environmental management system is constantly extended to all hospital processes including research activities and is involved and requested from all suppliers.
The quality of some of the processes and services of Monzino is certified with respect to the ISO9001-2015 standard by RINA Services SpA. It specifically involves the following services:
• Home rehabilitation service after cardiac surgery services;
• Sterilisation and High Disinfection Services;
• Extracorporeal Circulation Services;
• Laboratory Medicine services including OAT outpatients’ surgery, blood fridge service with assignment of blood components.
The Cardiovascular Tissue Bank of the Lombardy Region operates at Monzino, which carries out the receipt, processing, storage and distribution of valvular and vascular tissues from multi-organ and multi-tissue donors. The entire bank has been certified in compliance with the ISO 9001:2015 standard by RINA Services SpA.
For the third consecutive year, Monzino is the first Italian hospital amongst the world's best in cardiology and heart surgery. This was established by the “World's Best Specialised Hospitals 2023” ranking by the prestigious US magazine.
In the world ranking of the best hospitals, Monzino ranks eighteenth in cardiology and twentieth in cardiac surgery. For both rankings, it ranks as the first Italian hospital.
