SCIENTIFIC REPORT 2010 - 2011 - IOV

Chief Medical Officer Report
Graduated in Medicine in 1976, Maria Giacobbo was from
the beginning involved in public health management. Since 1986
she acted as Medical Director in several Hospitals and headed
different Health Agencies of the Veneto Region; from 1993 to
2000 she was also engaged as teacher at the Post-Graduate School
of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine of the University of Verona.
Since 2008 she acts as Medical Director of the IOV.
The Medical Directorate is responsible for the management
of all the clinical activities, and for the global governance and
integration of the services provided by the individual Units of
the Institute. In this setting, the Medical Directorate plays a key
role in mediating among the requirements of the Clinics (efficacy
of interventions and maintenance
of high standards of care), of
the Research activities (need of
innovation and experimentation), and
of the Administrative area (efficient
resource employment). This function
guarantees to both IOV workers and
the public (patients and Institutions)
elevated and consistent levels of care,
also dedicating special attention to
crucial aspects of modern Oncology
and Medicine:
safeness and risk prevention;
treatment appropriateness;
equal opportunity of access to care;
care humanization and strict
observation of deontological rules.
In this frame, the Medical
Directorate is strongly motivated
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to develop and optimize, in steady collaboration with the other
Directorates, new models of organization and governance which
could improve the quality of the services in terms of efficacy,
efficiency, safety, and appropriateness.
The Medical Directorate includes several Offices, which
superintend specific aspects of the clinical governance of the
Institute:
Quality and accreditation
Chief: Daniela Chiusole
This Office is dedicated to the following activities:
to guarantee, monitor and verify the maintenance and
implementation of the quality of
services, by providing appropriate
indexes of control;
to promote among the personnel of
the Institute the culture and value
of the quality, through dedicated
tools such as educational courses on
quality assurance and control;
to plan and monitor all the activities
needed to obtain and maintain
the institutional accreditation,
according to national and regional
rules and requirements;
to organize, monitor and maintain
the ISO 9001 certification, now
extended to all the clinical and
administrative activities of the
Institute;