Careggi University Hospital (https://www.aou-careggi.toscana.it/) has a public legal personality and is empowered with entrepreneurial, organizational, administrative, patrimonial, financial, managerial and technical autonomy.
It is a Trust integrated with the University of Florence and is characterized by the health care activities of hospitalization, specialized outpatient services and Emergency Room /Urgent care services.
It pursues the development of high standard specialization and is a Reference in the Florentine Wider Area as well as on a regional and national scale.
Careggi University Hospital performs unified and indivisible functions of joint patient care activities, education, didactics and research, and is a structural element of the National Health Service, in particular of the Healthcare System of the Tuscany Region, and of the University System. Moreover, it pursues the development of high expertise activities and fosters innovation in organizational and clinical care ambit, also by means of introducing advanced technologies for the diagnosis, the treatment, and the translational research.
The ward of the lower digestive tract tumor, led by Prof. Antonio Taddei, is part of the Multidisciplinary Oncology Group (GOM) and is made up of specialists belonging to Simple Departmental and Complex Organizational Structures of the Careggi University Hospital that deal with: gastroenterology, radiological diagnostics, histology and pathological cytology, general surgery, radiotherapy and medical oncology.
They participate in specialized meetings in gastroenterology, radiological and molecular diagnostics, pathological histology, general surgery, radiotherapy and medical oncology.