The history of the Veronese hospitals constitutes one of the most important and interesting
chapters of the urban events. St. Zeno in his sermon on the avarice, already praised the
Veronese inhabitants for their great availability toward suffering and sick people, to the point
that almost every monastery and parishes became a reception centre for pilgrims, distressed
and sick people.
Population growth implied to improve the health initiatives. The events happened in Verona at
the beginning of the twentieth century are a precious proof of the contribution which doctors and
wise administrators offered to the Veronese health care system. It is a history intimately related
to the munificent charity thanks to which the local protagonists sustained the birth and the
development of the hospital complex (bequest of Alessandri, Cressotti Zorzi, Failoni, Roveda,
only for quoting some of them). The hospital administration, together with doctors and
inhabitants faced with burning and active debates, the transfer of the civil hospital from its seat,
situated in the thin urban fabric of the city centre, to a suburb area: Borgo Trento.
Borgo Trento is the hospital which the Veronese feel like their own hospital, characterized by a
system of pavilions, long tree-lined avenue and luxuriant gardens. A new hospital complex,
Borgo Roma Policlinico, was born in the 1970s in the south suburb of the city, offering great
town planning and charitable opportunities.
The integration of the two hospitals and the constitution of the Azienda Ospedaliera Integrata
Verona are most recent history (2010), but seems follow the steps of the union between the
Alessandri Children’s Hospital and the Sant’Antonio Civil Hospital, as a prosecution of the
troubled hospital history of fusions, transfers and divisions.