The president and CEO of Knights Care Global, awarded to the Italian Reputation Awards, recounts his experience in healthcare and the importance of combining innovation, sustainability and patient centrality. From Sicily to the United States, to the recognition received at Carnegie Hall in New York. The path of Concetto “Tino” Ruta tells a story of entrepreneurial experience gained in the American healthcare sector, with particular attention to the management of care facilities and the sustainability of care services.
On Saturday, October 10, as part of the third edition of the Italian Reputation Awards, Knights Care Global’s president and CEO received a recognition for the work carried out in the management of health organizations operating in complex regulatory contexts between the United States and Europe.
“It was a great honor for an immigrant,” Ruta said, recalling his arrival in the United States from Sicily at the age of nineteen. A recognition that assumes for him a particular meaning, also for the bond maintained with its Italian origins.
His professional experience developed directly in the field of care and rehabilitation. For over fourteen years, Ruta has been working in this area, initially through restructuring and reorganization of healthcare facilities in New York and New Jersey.
Today Knights Care collaborates with independent and non-profit organizations active in long-term care and in assisted residences, contributing to the improvement of management models and the attainment of conditions of greater economic sustainability.
An activity that compares with the transformations of the American health system, in which the evolution of the reimbursement mechanisms has imposed on many organizations a revision of their operating methods. The objective, Ruta explains, is to intervene on organizational and management processes to recover financial efficiency and stability, allowing structures to continue their activity without sacrificing their non-profit nature and the social function played in the reference communities.
The relationship with Italy today represents another dimension of the path of Knights Care Global. The organization is also present in Rome and looks with interest to opportunities for comparison and development in the Italian healthcare system.
In June last, Ruta took part in the Centro Studi Americani in Rome, as part of an initiative promoted by Parliamentary Intergroups Sanità e Ripresa and Progetto Italia, dedicated to health governance, innovation and humanization of care.
The comparison between Italian and American models is one of the central aspects of his vision. Ruta recognises the Italian health care system with high-level medical and scientific skills, identifying at the same time the margins of improvement in technological integration, the organization of services and the management of resources.
The issue, in its perspective, does not only concern the availability of funding, but also the ability to adopt more efficient organizational models, simplify processes and use in a coordinated manner the available technologies.
In this direction, Knights Care Global is interested in initiatives and investments in Italy, with particular attention to digital tools and management systems that contribute to the economic sustainability of healthcare facilities.
However, it is not a question of simply transferring a model from one country to another. According to Ruta, the relationship between Italy and the United States can develop through a mutual exchange of experiences and skills. On the one hand, the American approach to the organization and efficiency of processes; on the other, an Italian tradition of assistance that attaches particular value to the human relationship and proximity to the patient.
It is precisely in this balance that the vision of Knights Care Global is inserted: to consider innovation, economic sustainability and quality of assistance as complementary dimensions of the same path. A perspective that recalls the principle of Magnifica Humanitas, intended as attention to the person, his dignity and his needs, even in a health context increasingly characterized by the use of new technologies.
For Ruta, the challenge is to make health systems more efficient without losing sight of their essential purpose: to take care of people. A principle that Ruta leads to a fundamental conviction “the centrality of the patient must guide every choice, even in the search for efficiency and economic sustainability”. The sustainability of health organizations and the quality of care, in this perspective, do not represent alternative objectives, but elements that must proceed together.
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