On November 27th Dr Galasso – secretary general of HOSPITALITY EUROPE – visited the Villa San Giuseppe nursing home of the Sisters Hospitallers’ Italian Province. This is a social/health care centre interested in partnering future European addiction prevention and rehabilitation therapy projects. Villa San Giuseppe is a residential facility with more than 90 beds, accommodating patients in general psychiatry and alcohol-dependency rehabilitation wards, and is a protected residence providing dementia and post-acute long-term care. The centre also offers a range of outpatient activities for psychological and psychotherapy and autism care, and for disorders resulting from alcohol abuse or drug-use.
Last June, a delegation from the Villa San Giuseppe nursing home had taken part in the European Social Inclusion Congress co-organised by the Order and the Sisters Hospitallers – an event which brought together over two hundred participants from all the European Provinces of the two institutions in Vienna – reaffirming the facility’s interest in ‘opening up’ to the European dimension of Hospitality.
Dr Galasso’s meeting with the general manager and administrative director of Villa San Giuseppe has made it possible to establish a mutual collaboration agreement with a view to including this facility in the transnational activities being promoted by Hospitality Europe.
