OPBG pursues excellency in health care, while constantly referring to Catholic principles and ethical values that inspired it’s foundation and ensure it’s continuous development. OPBG’s excellency in health care is achieved through advanced research and clinical activities, while managing resources to ensure administrative/financial balance and constantly improving processes to exploit the progress of biomedical science.

The Hospital is part of the Italian National Healthcare System and is widely recognized as referral centre for all paediatrics specialties at national and international levels. With its 11 Departments, covering all aspects of paediatrics care, the Hospital provides a complete range of healthcare services to children. OPBG has a total permanent staff of approx. 2,500, of which 550 physicians, 45 biologists and pharmacists, involved both in clinical and in research activities. OPBG has a research staff on a non-permanent position of 180. There are also approx. 50 post-graduate trainees (medical and surgical) and over 100 students and interns. Yearly clinical activities consist of approx. 27,000 inpatient admissions, 77,000 day hospital admissions, 6,000 day surgery treatments and over 1,500,000 outpatient visits.

The Hospital’s clinical activities run side by side with its scientific research, aiming at constantly improving and innovating diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Research activities are organized in “Research Areas”: genetic and rare diseases, multifactorial and complex diseases, immunology, infectiology and development of paediatric drugs, onco-haematology, clinical management and technological innovations.