Tignale Nursing Home Inauguration Enhances Community Services
Tignale. – The new Tignale Nursing Home will be inaugurated this morning. The facility – which has been the subject of careful renovation over the years costing just under two and a half billion lira – is located at the entrance of the Gardola settlement and offers improved services compared to the previous complex, which was a House-Albergo. It aims to provide additional services: short-term, fortnightly, and monthly stays, depending on bed availability, also for people without significant health impairments.
In the “House,” 41 people can be accommodated, 35 of whom are non-self-sufficient. Currently, the facility operates at full capacity and employs over 30 people, including staff and some professionals. Guests receive comprehensive medical care, as residents of the Nursing Home are no longer overseen by their family doctor but are treated by the Nursing Home’s medical staff.
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Furthermore, with the Asl (Local Health Authority), there are studies underway to enable a day-hospital and daytime stay service for those in need of minor medical or nursing interventions, including meal services. However, the new facility does not seem to be solely aimed at serving its residents. It looks poised to remain well integrated and rooted in the Tignale community.
The constant presence of medical, physiotherapy, and nursing personnel will allow for the activation of certain services (which have never been implemented before due to staffing shortages) for the local residents. A senior citizens’ exercise class will soon be launched, led by a physiotherapist using the facility’s gymnasium.
Additionally, the opportunity to have meals at the new Nursing Home is already available for elderly people through simple booking. Angiolino Demonti, the President of the Nursing Home, provides details about today’s inauguration scheduled for this morning. At 9:30 a.m., Demonti himself will greet the guests, followed by speeches from Tignale’s mayor, Manlio Bonincontri, the President of the Comunità Montana Parco dell’Alto Garda Bruno Faustini, and Margherita Peroni, a regional councilor.
The series of speeches will conclude with Cornelio Coppini (Director of Asl) and Angelo Foschini (Director of the Desenzano hospital). Alongside the Nursing Home inauguration, there will be the unveiling of the art exhibition “Messaggi,” hosted in the premises of the Nursing Home, emphasizing that the building is not a marginal entity but a new center of gathering that does not intend to be excluded from Tignale’s public life.
Following the introduction by the Provincial President, Alberto Cavalli, there will be a speech by art critic Mauro Corradini. The morning, enlivened by the Tignale Band, will conclude with a mass celebrated by the Auxiliary Bishop of Brescia, Mons. Vigilio Olmi. In the afternoon (at 3 p.m.), a performance by the Montecastello choir is scheduled.
