Smart Clinic SpA is born: a joint venture between Gruppo San Donato, GKSD and Generali Italia for the health of the future

The new company envisages the development of a network that will include a hundred structures by 2030 and will be chaired by Vito Cozzoli and led by CEO Bonifacio Moroni

Press Release – The closing of the strategic agreement between San Donato Group,
GKSD e Generali Italy: born Smart Clinic SpA, The company joint venture which aims to create, by 2030, a network of approximately 100 healthcare facilities across the entire Italian territory. The new reality will be chaired by Vito Cozzoli, under the guidance of the CEO Bonifacio Moroni and the directors, Francesco Galli, Francesco Bardelli and Gavino Arrica, appointed by the shareholders.

The JV is owned by Gruppo San Donato with 51%, by Generali Italia with 40% and by GKSD with 9%. A model based on a modern integrated healthcare-insurance ecosystem, the result of the synergy between the know-how of the two national leaders in the field of health and insurance. A strategic partnership at the service of the country that can count on the network of the San Donato Group – the leading Italian healthcare group, which treats over 63 million patients a year in its 5 offices – and on the strength of Generali Italia, the no. 1 insurer in Italy with around 11 million customers and a network present throughout the country.

Smart Clinic: the health joint venture

The new Smart Clinic, which also includes the ten healthcare facilities of the San Donato Group already operating in Lombardy, represents an innovative response, on the one hand, to the growing demand for treatment and prevention of the population and, on the other, to the progressive evolution towards healthcare based on personalized care services with high standards. A concrete contribution to the sustainability of the country’s health system, with the aim of promoting the efficiency and effectiveness of treatment paths. Smart Clinic presents, in fact, an innovative proposal on the Italian market that integrates the care in all medical specialties with an important focus on prevention and well-being, attention to the customer experience, accessibility to services, high quality standards and use of the best technologies.

A complete offer of outpatient services to guarantee the customer a 360-degree smart health experience, with personalized services thanks to integrated digital processes to simplify the research, booking and patient care phases. The use of technology for the entire duration of the diagnostic-therapeutic process allows, among other things, the patient to have their health data available in all the hospital facilities of the San Donato Group.

Thanks to this partnership, Generali Italia will be able to offer its customers easier access to performance of all Smart Clinics.

The Smart Clinic network will still be accessible to all citizens, including those insured with all the main mutuals, health funds and funds and insurance companies, who will be guaranteed continuity of care, even in the event of in-depth analysis or second level treatments, at the hospitals of the San Donato Group in a logic of Hub&Spoke.

– advisor Legal responsible for the operation were the law firms Legance, Bird & Bird and Ruberti e Associati for the San Donato Group and the Bonelli Erede firm for Generali Italia.

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Camel Ghribi, President of GKSD and Vice President of Gruppo San Donato, declared: «We are proud of this initiative which sees us as protagonists in bringing a completely innovative range of healthcare services to Italy. San Donato Group and Generali Italia, both market leaders, are undisputedly synonymous with quality of care and attention to customers.”

Giancarlo Childel, Country Manager and CEO of Generali Italia, declared: «The closing signed today is part of our “Partner for Life” strategy which has health protection as its pillar. A line of development also for the next industrial plan. Alongside an absolutely prestigious partner such as the San Donato Group, we offer an innovative proposal for the Italian panorama based on the principles of high healthcare quality, accessibility and proximity to territories and communities. An offer aimed not only at our customers, but at all citizens to respond to their growing need for prevention, services, technology and protection.”

Francesco Galli, President of the Strategy and Operations Committee of the San Donato Group and CEO of the Bergamo Hospital Institutes of the San Donato Group, declared: «We are particularly proud of the Smart Clinic project. Born ten years ago from our intuition, it immediately materialized into an innovative treatment and prevention proposal. With the Smart Clinics, in fact, we have come closer to the needs of people and families, making the know-how and high quality of the San Donato Group available in an increasingly widespread and accessible way in all aspects. Today, ten years later, the project is mature and ready for the leap onto a national scale.”

Francesco Bardelli, Chief H&W and Connected Business Development Officer of Generali Italia and CEO of Generali Welion, commented: «With the birth of Smart Clinic, we want to make a concrete contribution to the country system, towards an increasingly integrated model between public and private, in a logic of mutual support for the benefit of the offer and service to citizens. With this partnership we strengthen our Health & Welfare ecosystem which, through the application of technology and digitalisation, aims to make the best care for citizens increasingly accessible and personalized.”

San Donato Group

Gruppo San Donato (GSD), founded in 1957, is today among the leading European hospital groups and the first in Italy. It consists of 158 healthcare facilities in Europe including 27 hospitals. In Italy there are 63 facilities of which 18 are hospitals (including 3 IRCCS: San Raffaele Hospital, San Donato Polyclinic and Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio Hospital). These numbers translate into a widespread presence in all the main Lombardy provinces (Milan, Monza, Como, Pavia, Bergamo, Brescia), to which Bologna is added. It treats approximately 5 million patients a year, in all recognized specialties, being among the leaders, nationally and internationally, in Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Vascular Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Obesity Treatment. It carries out 80% of its clinical activity in agreement with the National Health System (NHS). It has more than 17.000 collaborators, including more than 7.000 doctors. In addition to the excellence of the clinical activity, what makes GSD unique in Europe is the quality of the university teaching and scientific research activity: 225 full professors, 665 contract professors and approximately 1.200 researchers, 5.535 students, 1.314 postgraduates, 3.414 scientific publications in the last year and 19.142 Impact Factor points.

GKSD Investment Holding

GKSD Investment Holding, a leading provider of strategic consultancy and project management services, offers expert advice to clients from the planning stage through to project execution and completion, in the following sectors: Healthcare with healthcare services covering all areas of care healthcare; Construction with solid growth strategies that include the strengthening of existing infrastructure and the rapid construction of new ones; Professional Services with project monitoring, cost control and administrative support both towards GSD hospital facilities and external clients; Business services that include energy efficient equipment installation and facility renovation services. The company has a strong presence on the local market in Italy, on the international market in North Africa and the Middle East (MENA) and on the market of the Persian Gulf countries (GCC). With over 15 current projects in more than 12 countries around the world and counting on the professional skills of over 20.000 employees, GKSD provides high-quality professional solutions.

Generali Italy

Generali Italia is the best-known insurer in Italy with over €27 billion in total premiums and a widespread network of 40 thousand distributors, in addition to online and bancassurance channels. Generali Italia includes Alleanza Assicurazioni, Das, Genertel and Genertellife, Generali Welion, Generali Jeniot, Leone Alato and the activities of the Cattolica Business Unit.