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>
Friendship and knowledge
The intuition of the home as the most appropriate place for treatment
The need to bend to circumstance
The relationship of esteem, support and affection
The possibility of living with hope
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