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It was created on 1995 to implement universal health coverage in the Philippines, and is attached to the Department of Health. On August 4, 1969, Republic Act 6111 or the Philippine Medical Care Act of 1969 was signed by President Ferdinand E. Marcos and implemented in August 1971.
The Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center (MMMH&MC) is a tertiary level government hospital in the Philippines with an authorized bed capacity of seven hundred (700). [1] It is located at Brgy. 6, Batac , Ilocos Norte .
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital (abbreviated as OLLH) is a private non-profit tertiary hospital with 230-bed capacity located in Santa Mesa, Manila, in the Philippines. It is a part of the East Manila Hospital Managers Corporation, a subsidiary of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation .
OMMC was established on January 31, 1969, by the government of the City of Manila. The primary motivation in establishing the Medical Center was to provide city residents, 80% of who are classified as indigents, a better standard of medical care. It was originally planned to provide a total in-patient capacity of 300 beds and 60–90 nursery cribs.
As of September 2020, the Philippines has a population of nearly 110 million and a population density of 368 per square kilometer. 32% of the population of the Philippines is under 15 years old, and only 22.2% is over 60. In the Philippines, 16.6% of the population lived below the national poverty line in 2018. [8] [9]
The medical center has been licensed by the Philippine Department of Health and is affiliated with and accredited to the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). [3] [4] It has also been accredited by The Joint Commission International in 2013, 2016, 2019 along with its most recent Gold Seal accreditation in 2022. [5]
The construction of the Makati Life Medical Center was funded under a public-private partnership between the Makati city government and private firm LifeNurture Inc. [3] The joint venture was finalized in April 2021. [1] The hospital project costed around ₱9.77-billion.
The Zamboanga Regional Medical Center (ZRMC), formerly known as the Mindanao Central Sanitarium, is a retained hospital under the Department of Health of the Republic of the Philippines. Established in 1930, it serves a dual function: as a sanitarium catering to Hansen’s Diseas e patients across Mindanao and as a general hospital serving ...