Long-term care
Long-term care is the Kingdom's next capacity challenge.
Long-term patients occupy acute hospital beds. Italy has decades of experience in running long-term and post-acute care outside the acute hospital.
Source: Knight Frank, The Saudi Report – Healthcare, January 2026 (2030 and 2040 figures are projections)
What Italy brings
A complete long-term care model
Post-acute and rehabilitation
Pathways that move patients from the acute ward to rehabilitation and long-term care, safely and on time.
Running long-term care facilities
Organisation, staffing models, daily routines and quality standards of Italian nursing homes and long-term care units.
Integrated care teams
Nurses, physiotherapists and care assistants (OSS) working to shared care plans for chronic and older patients.
For Saudi providers
How we support long-term care in the Kingdom
Teams ready from day one
Training for the staff of new long-term care units and converted hospitals.
Standards and protocols
Care plans, quality indicators and operating procedures from Italian practice.
Saudi trainers
Train-the-trainer, so that local faculty carries the model forward.
Free acute beds by building long-term care capacity.
The right patient, in the right bed, with the right team.
