If you are considering moving to Italy, healthcare is one of the practical questions that matters.
In Trentino, healthcare is provided through Italy’s public health system but organised at provincial level, with hospitals, community services, specialist care and digital health tools operating across the territory. And the latest data place the province among Italy’s strongest-performing healthcare systems.
According to the 2026 CREA Health Regional Performance Report, based on 2025 data, the Autonomous Province of Trento ranked second in Italy for overall healthcare performance, with an index of 62%, just behind Veneto at 64%. The assessment looks at several dimensions of healthcare, including access, health outcomes, appropriateness, innovation and sustainability.
That does not mean the system is without challenges. It does, however, provide useful context for anyone trying to understand what everyday public healthcare looks like in this part of Italy.
A province-wide healthcare system, now integrated with the University
Since 1 January 2026, Trentino’s public healthcare organisation has been known as ASUIT, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata del Trentino. ASUIT replaced the former APSS and introduced something more significant than a new name: a formal integration of healthcare, university education and scientific research, developed in collaboration with the University of Trento. It is responsible for coordinating health and social care services across the province.
For someone coming from abroad, this is worth understanding. Trentino is an autonomous province, so many aspects of healthcare organisation and service delivery are managed locally within the wider Italian National Health Service. The system is designed to provide care not only in Trento and Rovereto, but across the valleys and smaller communities of the province. That includes hospital care, outpatient services, community healthcare, home care, prevention and rehabilitation.
Healthcare, research and education under the same system
The creation of ASUIT brings clinical care, medical education and research more closely together.
The University of Trento already offers a Medicine and Surgery degree programme, and the new structure is designed so that clinical activity, university teaching and scientific research operate within a more integrated framework. For healthcare professionals, that creates a different type of environment: one where working in the public health system can also mean being closer to university education, research and professional development. And for people considering a move to Trentino, it means that specialist healthcare and scientific research are increasingly part of the same local ecosystem.
Advanced care in a relatively small Alpine province
One of the clearest examples is the Trento Proton Therapy Centre.
Clinical activity began in 2014, and the Centre treated more than 2,500 patients during its first ten years. It has two treatment rooms for patients and a third beamline dedicated to experimental and research activities. Proton therapy is a highly specialised form of radiotherapy, used in particular cases where accurately targeting a tumour while limiting radiation to surrounding tissue can be especially important.
The presence of a facility like this in Trento is a good example of something that appears repeatedly across the province: highly specialised infrastructure within a relatively compact territory.
Digital healthcare is part of everyday services
Trentino has also been investing in digital health for years.
TrentinoSalute4.0 brings together the provincial healthcare system, the Autonomous Province of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler to develop and test digital healthcare services and technologies. One of its most visible results is TreC+, a digital platform through which residents can access healthcare services and manage aspects of their health record. Today TreC+ is used for functions including appointments, health information and digital services, and it has also been developed to support forms of telemedicine and remote monitoring for some patients.
For a mountain province, that matters. Digital healthcare can help reduce the practical distance between specialist services and people living outside the main urban centres.
What does this mean if you are moving to Trentino?
A good healthcare system is not something you think about only when you are ill. It affects how secure a place feels to live in, particularly if you are moving with children, managing a long-term condition or planning to stay for several years. And if you work in healthcare, medicine, life sciences or digital health, the picture is broader still.
Trentino brings together a public healthcare provider, the University of Trento, research institutions such as FBK, specialist infrastructure and digital-health projects within a relatively small geographical area. Healthcare here is therefore both a service for people who live in Trentino and part of the province’s wider research and professional ecosystem.
Healthcare is part of the relocation decision too
When you compare places to live and work, the job is only one part of the picture. You also need to know what happens around it: healthcare, housing, family services, schools, mobility and everything else that shapes everyday life.
That is why Trentino for Talent looks beyond job opportunities alone. We want to give you the practical information you need to understand what building a life in Trentino could actually involve.
