Opened in 1997, this is one of the first facilities in Italy dedicated to Day Surgery in the field of orthopedics and plastic surgery, especially of the upper limbs: hand, elbow, shoulder, microsurgery and repair of peripheral nerves. The clinic also carries out operations on the feet and of aesthetic surgery, in addition to all types of arthroscopic surgery (knee, shoulder, etc.).
The Center is named after the doctor and educator Maurizio Bufalini (1785-1875), a ancestor of one of the staff surgeons.
Maurizio Bufalini played a leading role in the history of Italian and especially Florentine medicine: he was a strenuous defender of the Galilean method that underpins modern scientific medicine against the prevailing theories of the day, such as Brownism and vitalism. Together with Gino Capponi and Bettino Ricasoli, he founded the University of Florence, of which he was the first medical pathologist. He worked and taught for many years at the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, located just a few hundred meters from the Center.