Rome, 15 December. (Adnkronos Health) – Cortina hospital serving the Olympics and Paralympics. Gvm Care & Research – a group that operates in healthcare, research, the biomedical industry, spa wellness and business services – provides strategic and excellent healthcare developed in over fifty years of history to the Cortina area and for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The group, founded in 1973 by Ettore Sansavini, has managed the Cortina hospital since 2019, a multi-specialist structure accredited by the National Health Service. On the occasion of the ‘Health at High Altitude. The Cortina hospital model towards the 2026 Olympics’, which was held at the Hotel de la Poste in Cortina, GVM shared with institutions, professionals and the local community the strategic role of healthcare in the mountains also for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The meeting was attended by representatives of national and local institutions, exponents of the sports world and health professionals present, including Ettore Sansavini himself, Gianluca Lorenzi, mayor of Cortina, Stefano Longo, president of the Cortina Foundation, and Flavio Menardi, Fisip athlete belonging to the para-bob team.
The Cortina hospital complex is made up of the Codivilla and Putti pavilions. The first is at the center of an important redevelopment and expansion project by the group which aims to make it a modern, technological hospital also oriented towards prevention and longevity paths. During the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, Codivilla will be dedicated to the Olympic family and will be managed by Ulss 1 Dolomiti, therefore addressing exclusively athletes, staff and delegations. At the end of the Games it will return to the management of GVM Care & Research and will be available to the area, residents and tourists. The Putti pavilion, however, fully operational, hosts the first aid point, diagnostic imaging, the orthopedics and traumatology area, motor rehabilitation and, from 2025, a new accredited operating room dedicated to both emergencies and scheduled interventions (prostheses, arthroscopies, Fast Track protocols).
“Our model – declared President Sansavini – embodies over 50 years of experience that allow us to provide excellent services and specialist care in the high mountains, in Cortina. With cutting-edge technologies and services, the Cortina hospital is one of the centers of excellence not only at an Italian level, but also at an international level, and is prepared in the best possible way to guarantee efficiency and timeliness on the occasion of a major sporting event such as the next Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The structure is at the service of the territory, of tourists and athletes all year round and is designed to provide strategic, high-level healthcare during the Olympic competitions and beyond.”
With the Putti pavilion fully operational and the Codivilla fundamental for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Cortina hospital – we read in a note – represents an example of evolving territorial healthcare, capable of responding to the daily needs of a territory at high altitude and to the challenges of a global event which provides hospitality, services and healthcare for around 3,000 athletes, for the tens of thousands of expected visitors and for the territory.
“I thank Ettore Sansavini for his great commitment to wanting to redevelop the historic hospital of Cortina, the Codivilla, providing healthcare during the Olympics and Paralympics”, said Giovanni Malagò, president of the Milano Cortina 2026 Foundation, in a video message. “All this – he added – is very important, because it is an asset that we have included in what are the new services for the large Olympic community: not only the technicians and athletes, but also the delegations, fans, stakeholders, sponsors, federations, managers, the media, a multitude of people who feel even happier to participate knowing that there is also attention to this fundamental need in a place where the Olympic Games will be hosted”.
For the mayor of Cortina “healthcare is a point of reference for the community of Cortina, but also for the whole of Cadore, both during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and above all in the following period – Lorenzi specified – Finally having an adequate structure not only for first aid, which is fundamental, gives serenity to the whole community for greater safety and health protection”.
In recent years “many small provincial hospitals have been closed and the risk of this happening to Codivilla too was strong – highlighted Longo – This public-private partnership has instead reversed course and represents, in my opinion, a virtuous strategy also for the future. A place like Cortina – concluded the president of the Cortina Foundation – needs a high-level health centre, capable of responding to the needs of the community, athletes and visitors: an essential element to strengthen the attractiveness of the territory, support the sports hub we have built and make Cortina a safe and welcoming place not only for training, but also for living and frequenting the mountains”.
