REGGIO EMILIA (ITALPRESS) – It is called “Assisiamo” and is the project with which Assist Group, Italian holding company active since 1987 based in San Polo d’Enza, in the province of Reggio Emilia, today makes structured and recognizable a commitment that, in fact, has been carrying out for two years.
The project focuses on two key areas: health and school, essential public services to which everyone needs access. At the base of Assist there is a simple conviction: an enterprise that grows in a territory, thanks to the people and the opportunities it offers, must also be able to return part of what it received, intervening where real needs emerge. In this perspective, the role of the private is to support the public and help strengthen essential services for people through concrete actions.
It is the Assist Group and the Group companies have already done in the last two years, in particular in support of public health. The most recent intervention dates back to September 2026, when HIVE, a company of Assist Group that develops and manages integrated digital ecosystems, donated to the Simple Dipartimental Structure of Ocular Immunology of the Archspedale Santa Maria Nuova of Reggio Emilia, directed by Professor Luca Cimino, a new OCT for the study of the front segment of the eye. Advanced diagnostic technology, among the few in its kind at national level.
“This new OCT will allow us to see with greater precision what happens in the eye and to follow better over time inflammatory diseases”, explained Professor Luca Cimino, also underlining the possible future applications of artificial intelligence in image analysis and support for patient diagnosis and follow-up.
The donation is part of a relationship already consolidated with the IRCCS AUSL in Reggio Emilia. On the occasion of delivery, Director General Davide Fornaciari highlighted not only the contribution of the new technology to the choice of the most appropriate care, but also the value of the support that can arrive from the territory: “The generosity and attention of our entrepreneurial and social fabric encourage us to continue the path undertaken for a high-level public health”.
The donation of HIVE is added to the one made in 2025 directly by Assist Group, always in favor of the Ocular Immunology of Santa Maria Nuova: a Spectralis OCT2 Compact system with angiotomography module, intended for the study of retina and optic nerve and complementary to the equipment donated in 2026.
The commitment also involved other Group companies and other healthcare companies. In 2025 Formula12, a company specializing in nutrition, together with the ABC Children’s Association, supported the Pediatric Cardiology of the University Hospitaller Company of Parma with the donation of a last generation electrocardiograph. The instrument is intended for the diagnosis and monitoring of children with heart disease and represents a further example of how the Group companies have chosen to intervene on concrete needs of healthcare facilities.
The school is the other area of assistance. Health and education share a principle which is the basis of the project: they are fundamental public services, which must be accessible to all. It is precisely on these grounds that Assist Group intends to focus its contribution, supporting the public where the support of an enterprise can help to meet specific needs and improve services aimed at people.
The 2027 will mark a new phase of the project. In the year in which Assist Group will celebrate 40 years of activity, Assist will play an even more central role.
Starting from the first quarter of 2027, and then in the following years, the Group will make public the commitment that will characterize Assist for that year, identifying vin turn, a need, a project or initiative on which to focus your intervention.
“Assist was born in the province of Reggio Emilia almost forty years ago and this territory has given us a lot: people, skills, relationships, opportunity – says Gianni Prandi, founder of Assist Group -. We believe that an enterprise must also be able to return a part of what it received. This is the idea of entrepreneurship in which we believe: to put people in the centre and to transform the link with the territory into choices and actions. Health and school are two fundamental pillars and must be accessible to all. The private can do their part, working alongside the institutions and listening to the needs that emerge. With Assist we want to give continuity and recognisability to this commitment and make it grow over the years along with the territory”.
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