The story

A journey that surpasses the intentions and abilities of the people who undertook it
MADDALENA GRASSI

At 19, Maddalena discovered that she had a fatal chronic disease and required constant assistance. His condition affects family, friends and professionals.
Maddalena leaves a profound mark, in particular on aunt Matilde who wishes to replicate the experience of care encountered thanks to the professionals who had assisted her niece until the end

“Matilde experiences her pain with the discretion and depth that her temperament dictates. In the months full of her niece’s illness, she had not missed how she had been cared for by the nurses and doctors who were her friends, recognizing in their approach a central point in the struggle between a desperate resignation and a vibrant sharing of a question of infinity and eternity”.< /blockquote>

THE BEGINNINGS

In 1991 a group of professionals came together, discovering they shared the same opinion on life, work and care.

Matilde Grassi, then Mayor of Concorezzo, eager to support a useful work in memory of Maddalena, created the Foundation.

EVOLUTION

The Foundation’s activity was immediately oriented towards the management of complex patients.

Management requires an integrated approach to develop personalized care and rehabilitation paths that increasingly include the empowerment of the patient and his family.

TODAY

Very brief description of services and treatment methods (always the same) and meaning

«L’è campà cume un pirla, l’è mòrt cume un re. Grazie».

I remember the meeting I had with the Milanese father of a boy who died young in one of our houses after a senseless life; he went down the stairs leaving the room where his son had just died and hugging me he said: “He’s a boy like an idiot, he’s dead like a king. Thank you””

Key Events

<h5>Five events on which the Maddalena Grassi Foundation has developed and continues to develop</h5>

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Friendship and knowledge

Development of friendly relationships between professionals and with the people assisted and growth of a capacity for human and scientific knowledge

The intuition of the home as the most appropriate place for treatment

The care relationship began with the welcome into the patient's home

The need to bend to circumstance

Learning and improving skills through the solicitation of masters of the profession and university teachers

The relationship of esteem, support and affection

Among professionals and with assisted people

The possibility of living with hope

The tormented story has a meaning and a value, so much so that it can be experienced with others in the certain hope of good, which pushes us to seek and develop all the necessary skills and tools

2024

following the reform of the Lombardy Region the service is renamed Home Care (C-Sun)

2023

• inauguration of the chapel and multipurpose hall in Seveso
• the Seveso house turns 30

2021

• restoration and inauguration of two new apartments in Seveso
• inauguration of the chapel in Vigevano

2020

• opening of two new cohousing apartments in Seveso
• structuring of a service for ongoing training
• ADICOVID activation

2019

• opening of 3 cohousing apartments in Concorezzo
• Doctorate in neurological sciences started with the University of Pavia

2018

Start of collaboration with the “La Famiglia” counseling center

2016

Publication of the book and production of the documentary “La casa, la cura” for 25 years of activity.

2015

Construction of a new wing of the Vigevano multifunctional center with the creation of a second psychiatric protected community

2013

Renovation and expansion of the Seveso reception center with the construction of two cohousing units

2011

Opening of a second community in the Concorezzo facility.

2009

Start of home care activity for severely disabled minors

2008

Supporting the Cooperative Esserci in the management of the HIV Accommodation House in Concorezzo

Recognition from the Municipality of Milan (“Ambrogino d’oro”)

2007

Start of collaboration with As.Fra Foundation. for the care of psychiatric patients

2006

The training activity obtains ISO 9001 quality certification and accreditation as an ECM provider

2005

First patient welcomed into the Protected Psychiatric Community in the RSD of Vigevano

2004

ADI in the municipalities of Assago, Buccinasco, Cesano Boscone, Corsico, Cusago, Trezzano sul Naviglio, Desio and Seregno.

2003

National recognition

2002

Foundation stone of the multifunctional center of Vigevano in villa Rondo for degenerative neurological and psychiatric pathologies, with multi-specialist clinics

2000

Entry into the Oncology Department of the Luigi Sacco hospital and participation in the opening of the hospice at the Columbus nursing home

1995

Ambrogina and Aldo Rondo bequeath their villa in Vigevano

1994

Hospitalization of the first patient in the HIV Reception Home of Seveso

1993

Integrated home care begins

1992

Recognition of the Lombardy Region

1991

The Foundation is established and home care begins