SIGNA – A new healthcare facility ready to be built in the Fieenze plain.
Palazzo Ferroni in Signa will be completely restored to host the new community hospital con 10 beds for intermediate care and rehabilitation. The construction site started last July and on 30 September the President of the Region, Eugenio Giani and the General Director of the Central Tuscany Local Health Authority, engineer Valerio Marithey officially inaugurated it together with the health director of the ASL Tuscany centre, Simona Deito the mayor of Signa, Giampiero Fossito the deputy mayor Marinella Fossi and to the president of the Health Society of the north-west Florentine area, Camilla Sanquerin.
Located on three floors, Palazzo Ferroni covers a total area of approximately 890 m2. The redevelopment requires a total investment of over three million euros attributable to Pnrr financingand construction site closure times for the first months of 2026.
The project will create a historic building which, once renovated, will serve to accommodate those who have been discharged from another hospital but will not yet be able to return home and for the chronically ill, with low-intensity care hospitalizations ea rapido turn over. The structure in via Ferroni in Signa will be the link with a hospital-territorial continuity model which, in integration with general practitioners and specialists from community homes, will offer an intermediate stay between acute hospitalization and the post-acute phase. Characteristics that make it in all respects a community hospital.
“With its ten long-term care beds, the structure that will be created in Signa will have a function that complements the more classically hospital one and will be a point of reference for the entire metropolitan area – underlines the president of Tuscany, Eugenio Giani – The start of the renovation works, which actually start today, constitutes an important step forward for the reorganization of healthcare in the area and the creation of new services close to where citizens live”.
“Using the Pnrr funds – explains Giani – more than thirty community hospitals will be created in Tuscany, where the chronically ill or patients discharged from hospital but who need lower intensity care will be able to be welcomed, and over seventy will be operational community homes, with specialist clinics and family doctors”.
“This is a financially important investment and it will be a revolution – concludes the president – which for the Signa community will also be an opportunity for urban regeneration, because we will bring back to new life in the center of the town a historic building that has been in need of care for many years , which was the seat of the town hall and is now abandoned”.
“In this structure which represents one of the realities of the new model of territorial assistance that will develop in the coming years in the central Tuscany Local Health Authority – declares the General Director of the Local Health Authority, Valerio Mari – citizens of the north-west Florentine area will find an additional response to their health and care needs. This hospital will be the natural point of reference for chronic, frail and elderly patients who need intermediate level care.”
“With this structure – underlines the Mayor I was – Signa will do its part for the health of citizens in an important area like the north west. Having a community hospital in this central place will allow us to act together with other local assistance structures such as the Community Houses that will be built in nearby municipalities and in a more general project that has the health and well-being of citizens as its aim” .
The recovery of the Palace was conceived with this destination: al ground floor there will be rehabilitation rooms, a medical area for visits and ancillary health services, such as relaxation areas and a gym. On the same floor, an attic will be built to be used as a technical room with the structural adaptation useful for defining the new layout. The main public entrance on via Ferroni is also maintained on the ground floor, mainly intended for the arrival of visitors to the structure.
Al primo on the floor there will be the ward with hospitalizations made up of four double rooms and two single rooms.
Il basement floor it is intended for technical rooms, warehouses, changing rooms, ancillary services. Disabled access will also take place from this floor and for this reason a new stretcher lift will have to be inserted in place of the connecting staircase and a new body will have to be created at the back of the building on all floors with an adequate landing landing for movement and manoeuvrability. of litters. Furthermore, the addition of a new lift and a new metal staircase is planned.
Also present at the inauguration of the construction site were the director of the Health Society, Andrea Francalancithe health coordinator of the territorial services in the north-west Florence area, Alessandro Pecchioli and the director of Nursing Management Florence North West, Antonio Gant.
