The Cecchetto Salvatori Associated Nursing Firm, established in July 2003, is an association of professionals enrolled in the Ipasvi Board of Milan. Its legal office is in Solaro and it operates in Lombardy in the Provinces of Milan, Varese, and Como, and in Tuscany in the Provinces of Lucca, Pisa and Livorno.

The services guaranteed by the Cecchetto Salvatori Associated Nursing Firm differ from those delivered by the traditional nursing agencies spread on the territory for three sound reasons:

• Reasons of professional nature:
  The Cecchetto Salvatori Associated Nursing Firm is exclusively managed by professional nurses with long experience in the public and private health service. They mainly deal with nursing activities, being acquainted with the peculiarities of the deliverable nursing services and enhancing their profession for the protection of the single person and the community.

• Reasons of organisational nature:
  The Cecchetto Salvatori Associated Nursing Firm has an organisational structure consolidated over the years to meet the assistance requirements as needed by the territory. The personnel of the Firm is made up of professional nurses residing in the area, who have chosen to carry out the nursing profession in an associated regime meeting fully the civil, fiscal and deontological standards. Through this criterion, the Firm guarantees top level assistance continuity thanks to professionals completely devoted to the customer. By not having recourse to subordinate nurses and/or “moonlighters” (as often happens in the nursing agencies), the Firm has a “major asset” in keeping a stable staff by avoiding useless turnovers which would affect negatively the activity of the customer.

• Reasons of control / surveillance / quality:
  The Cecchetto Salvatori Associated Nursing Firm, unlike the traditional nursing agencies, is enrolled in the provincial list of professionals of the Ipasvi Board of Milan. The Firm has a statute and articles of association approved by the professional Board of this category. The Firm supports and encourages the nursing profession by sharing its behavioural and deontological guidelines dictated by the Federazione Nazionale Collegi Ipasvi (National Federation of Ipasvi Boards) and doing its utter most so that the image and reputation of the profession is not damaged while protecting the client, the single person and the community.

Therefore, the Associated Firm shows interesting aspects as organisational instrument, by being a valid solution to the problems of continuity in the supply of the service, typical of the health care, even with high complexity.

To this end, the Associated Firm allows the customer to solve the problems linked to the coordination of different people for carrying out of the service throughout the whole day, and acts as a valid support for the completion of the nursing organisation chart within the structure. The Firm can offer a total cover of the nursing service with dedicated professionals (full time) and with a guarantee of 24-hour assistance continuity for the whole duration of the agreement.

The skills and resources of the Cecchetto Salvatori Associated Firm are directed to:

• Health-care structures operating or not operating with the national health service

• Integrated domiciliary care

• Specimen collection centres

• Industrial and sport medicine

• Health supervision

• Health education

• Industrial accident consultancy, first aid courses, environmental safety

• Professional training (the firm is accredited with the Department of Health for the E. C. M. national programme)

• Out-patient multi-specialist centres