In a short time, it becomes an essential point of reference for those families who, living in small isolated villages, are forced to make long trips to reach the largest centers and those few structures capable of providing adequate care.
In 2002 the Association gives way to the current Padre Pio Onlus Rehabilitation Centers Foundation, which continues its rehabilitation activity inspired by the same principles of Christian charity and integral promotion of the human person.
Since its origins, the Foundation has proposed an organizational model that meets the needs of individual citizens for care, paying great attention to local health care ensured by a widespread presence of Outpatient and Home Services.
A “network” company organization that also includes an important national and international technical-scientific reference point, the “Gli Angeli di Padre Pio” Residential and Extra-residential Presidium, which guarantees intensive care using highly innovative systems and equipment in the field of rehabilitation medicine.
Based on this experience, gained in over fifty years of activity, the Padre Pio Centers are perfectly in line with the new development plans provided by the National Health Service.
A multi-professional, structured team of considerable scientific and professional stature operates within it, consisting of health management experts, medical specialists (in physical and rehabilitative medicine, neurology, orthopedics, child neuropsychiatry, cardiology, internal medicine, ophthalmology), psychologists and psychotherapists, rehabilitation health professionals (physiotherapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, developmental neuro and psychomotor therapists, professional educators and orthoptists), biomedical engineers, healthcare professionals nurses, social workers, support staff and administrative staff as well as sought-after consultants, freelancers and collaborators of prestigious Italian and foreign healthcare facilities and universities.
The Foundation is registered with the ARIS employers’ association – Religious Association of Social and Health Institutes. The A.R.I.S., based in Rome, brings together representatives of ecclesiastical institutions (religious and secular) or connected to them, which provide health care services.
The ARIS Association acts under the supervision of the Ecclesiastical Authority (Italian Episcopal Conference – C.E.I.) in accordance with cann. 298-299-305-322-325 of the code of canon law, is inspired by the directives of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Healthcare Workers and of the competent body for the Pastoral Healthcare of the CEI.
