WELCOMED / Medici In Famiglia srl Impresa Sociale

Social enterprise born in 2014 to cover health needs of all social groups by providing high quality healthcare and psychological services at affordable rates with short waiting times. Is a sustainable, inclusive, collaborative and transformative model that goes beyond just managing the illness by empowering linkages with and within communities through a multiactor and multidisciplinary approach. Welcomed has been running two multi-specialty centers in Milan (in September 2023 we’ll open a third one) with approximately 100 doctors and experts in more than 30 medical specialties, it provides medical, psychological, rehabilitation (Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy, Psychomotricity, Cognitive and Neurological Rehabilitation) and educational and family services. The social impact is related to the improvement of the health outcomes for marginalized communities by improving social and environmental determinants, through an innovative model that support different facets of community health and combat health disparities: thanks to donations, grants and the reinvestment of 100% of the future profits (we are now close to the break-even), services are provided free of charge to vulnerable groups, mainly children and families, that are forced to give up treatments because of long waiting list of the public service. Treatments are available on-site and at schools, hospitals and “on field” in partnership with other non-profit organizations and public entities (primarily with social services and the operational units of childhood and adolescent neuropsychiatry). The underprivileged people are identified in collaboration with a network of 100 partners (schools, hospitals, social services, third sector entities, etc.), a sort of social/educative/medical alliance with every partner that is strongly involved in the project: to collaborate in helping motivate beneficiaries and remember them treatments but also to share with the other entities cases, issues, recommendations, etc.

Medici in Famiglia Impresa Sociale, known as Welcomed, is a social enterprise born in 2014 to cover health needs of all social groups by providing high quality healthcare and psychological services at affordable rates with short waiting times.

Is a sustainable, inclusive, collaborative and transformative model that goes beyond just managing the illness by empowering linkages with and within communities through a multiactor and multidisciplinary approach.

Social Impact

Welcomed stands out for its social vocation : 100% of the profits are reinvested in free visits through the Progetto Visita Sospesa® to help people in socio-economic difficulty at our center and with social projects in the area in collaboration with our institutional partners , third sector, schools and hospitals.

• Until now we have been offered 35.000 free outpatient services for vulnerable beneficiaries thanks to the collaboration of around 100 partners.
• At our centers, in 50 schools located in the city of Milan and through a project in collaboration with Niguarda hospital.
• In 2022 we provided 9.300 services for free and we reached 8.000 direct beneficiaries and around 24.000 indirect beneficiaries.

Services

Welcomed has been running two multi-specialty centers in Milan (in September 2023 we’ll open a third one) with approximately 100 doctors and experts in more than 30 medical specialties, it provides medical, psychological, rehabilitation (Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy, Psychomotricity, Cognitive and Neurological Rehabilitation) and educational and family services of 100% of the future profits (we are now close to the break-even), services are provided free of charge to vulnerable groups, mainly children and families, that are forced to give up treatments because of long waiting list of the public service.

• Treatments are available on-site and at schools, hospitals and “on field” in partnership with other non-profit organizations and public entities (primarily with social services and the operational units of childhood and adolescent neuropsychiatry).