Parma & its enterprises

PRIVATE HEALTHCARE

Private healthcare services E ven since 1201, the year in which an ‘ante litteram’ hospital was established by a Teutonic Knight named Rudolph Tanz, then Latinized to Rodolfo Tanzi, healthcare structures had a great importance for Parma and its province, as was important the “Almo Collegio Medico Parmense”, a medical college whose charter dates back to 1440. The Duchy era (from1760 to 1846) concurred with the maximum prestige of the Scuola Medica Parmense, a medical school. And one should not forget the spas (which were famous since the XIX century) whose curative waters are the most complete in Europe because of the variety of their healing effects. province (especially the one provided by private facilities) has always been singled out for the high quality of its services and personnel used in tackling, healing and recovering from illnesses and, more recently, from permanent damages, induced disabilities as well as in tackling degenerative ills. Healthcare in Parma and its

Nowadays, several private care clinics and facilities placed in Parma and its province are able to provide important tools for healing and recovery from illnesses and damages. The majority of these facilities are tailored on the needs of elder people, but some hospitals and private healing centers are specialized in recovery, particularly concerning physiotherapy; nevertheless psychiatric and neurological support and recovery are provided as well. Specific clinical analyses are also carried out. Rehabilitation is another specific focus for many of these structures. Our territory does also host some healing centers active in research and training for personnel and operators in this sector, by means of seminars and courses dedicated to specific research areas or medical branches. In addition to, and on the behalf of, these clinics and centers are a number of laboratories , mostly small-sized, specializing in several kinds of clinical and radiological tests.

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