R1MC is now RP’s 3rd best
THREE cheers to the Region I Medical Center in Dagupan City!
It was recently adjudged by the Department of Health as among the country’s top five government hospitals.
An unassuming Dr. Jesus Canto, R1MC chief, said the accolade makes all the hospital’s personnel “proud and stand 10 feet tall”.
Canto said R1MC has been ranked the third best among the top hospitals of the country, trailing behind the Lung Center of the Philippines and the Davao Medical Center that were adjudged first and second, respectively.
In fourth place is the Nueva Ecija Medical Center while the Iloilo Medical Center is in fifth place.
R1MC is a 300-bed capacity hospital but its number of patients who are mostly indigents is usually more than its normal capacity.
The list of top five government hospitals throughout the country was finalized during a national conference called by the DOH in Manila where all chiefs of hospitals reported their performance.
The conference was attended by all DOH undersecretaries and assistant secretaries and they all commended R1MC for its phenomenal performance as a public health facility.
“We were congratulated and commended by them for having transformed the medical center into one of the best government tertiary hospitals not only in terms of facilities but also in performance,” Canto announced during the flag ceremony last Monday.
Other criteria adopted for the selection included quality of their equipment and facilities, professionalism of their staff as well as their resourcefulness in looking for donations (since funding coming from the DOH for improvement was not enough).
Canto thanked the hospital’s benefactors, notably House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., and Reps. Generoso Tulagan and Amado Espino Jr.
He said Speaker de Venecia and Rep. Tulagan were responsible for providing a building that now houses the dialysis center.
De Venecia also funded another building that will house the hospital’s ultra sound machine promised earlier by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.
The latest donor was Dr. Pedro Dayrit of the Memorial Hospital in New Jersey and St. Francis Hospital in Delaware who donated a P500,000 bronchoscope thru the intercession of his brother-in-law Dagupan City Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez.
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