Figure 1
Organizational chart of EOC's governance structure, structured in four tiers. At the top, the Board of Directors oversees the Internal Audit and is linked by a dashed line to the Legal & Compliance Team, a group of four units: Legal Department, Data Protection & Privacy Office, Risk Management, and Clinical Ethics Committee. Directly below sits the Management Board, from which these four units, the Project Management Unit, and eight corporate departments all branch: Support Department, Medical Department, Nursing Department, Education & Research Department, Finance & Controlling Department, Human Resources Department, Technical Department, and ICT Department. At the same level, the Management Board is also linked to a Corporate Management Council. The lower half of the chart, shaded in blue to mark a distinct organizational tier, lists the operational sites and cross-site clinical units. Six care sites appear first: Regional Hospital of Lugano, Regional Hospital of Bellinzona e Valli, Regional Hospital of Mendrisio, Regional Hospital of Locarno, Rehabilitation Clinic, and Cardiocenter Ticino. Below them, eight cross-site clinical and support institutes complete the chart: Institute of Oncology of Southern Switzerland, Institute of Imaging of Southern Switzerland, Institute of Clinical Neurosciences of Southern Switzerland, Institute of Pediatrics of Southern Switzerland, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Institute of Pathology of Southern Switzerland, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, and Central Industrial Services.EOC organizational chart. Source: Adapted from EOC internal documentation