Mabuhay from PGH, recently designated THE national university hospital, today the Philippines' 101-year old national tertiary referral center and teaching hospital of UP Manila (The Health Sciences Center) that includes the UP College of Medicine, UP College of Nursing and allied paramedical colleges. It is the largest government hospital administered by the UP System (not by the Department of Health); occupies 10 hectares of prime Manila real estate, 45 buildings, and 125,000 square meters of floor area; consists of 19 clinical departments distributed in the in- and outpatient sections, 1500 patient beds (1000 charity, 500 pay and special units); and has a wide variety of service and training facilities, including the recently-operationalized 6th Floor Operating Room Extension for Organ Transplant and Open Heart Surgeries, -modernized Emergency Room Complex, -inaugurated National Eye Referral Center (Sentro Oftalmologico Jose Rizal), -beefed up Radiodiagnostic Complex and Cancer Institute, -strengthened integrated/centralized units, and, hopefully, the soon-to-open Faculty Medical Arts Building and, much later, the dream Legacy Building for new interdisciplinary ambulatory diagnostic and therapeutic services relevant to a national university hospital.
Since its creation by Philippine Commission Act 1688 on August 17, 1907 and subsequent opening to the public on September 1, 1910 with 300 beds, PGH stood by its noble purpose of providing quality health care to the Filipino people especially to the underserved. From 1985 to 1991, PGH underwent a major renovation and expansion program, necessitating a dramatic increase in manpower, hospital services and equipment. Today, PGH boasts of about 4000 medical and non-medical employees, a wide array of general and subspecialty services, and complete support programs and facilities that enable it to render comprehensive quality care to both healthy and sick Filipinos, in particular the indigent and marginalized.
Our shared vision for 2004-2009 says it all: “We are a community of first-rate, highly-energized, socially-responsible healthcare professionals and workers collectively enhancing the national and international image of UP-PGH as the national university hospital showcasing excellence and leadership in client service, training, research and governance”. We go by the battlecry “Tatak PGH Plus Plus” and the simple objectives of (1) delivering what is core in our abovecited four areas of engagement, (2) raising the bar, and (3) setting and achieving leadership targets. We are guided by core values/initiatives which are expressed as slogans: excellence, leadership, basic courtesy and professionalism in the workplace (“magaling na, magalang pa”, “bagong anyo”), along with thriftiness, resourcefulness and loyalty (“iwas waldas”, “dagdag kita”, “magmalasakit, PGH muna”), and cleanliness/occupational safety in the workplace ("malinis at ligtas tayo sa PGH").
We celebrated our Centennial Year from August 17, 2006 to August 17, 2007 mindful to make a bigger difference for PGH thereafter by benchmarking it with the best national university hospitals in Asia and the world. On our shoulders fall the daunting tasks of further modernizing, upgrading, rehabilitating and reinventing PGH. This includes a massive facelift of existing physical plant and introducing niches and cutting-edge services, acquiring top-of-the-line hospital equipment, embracing quality management systems and markedly enhancing human resource programs. With the wellspring of support from the National Government, the university, our philanthropic pool of governmental, non-governmental and private groups and individuals here and abroad, and most of all the Filipino public, PGH continues to move on and move up. A Reader's Digest Asia Gold Trusted Brand Awardee 2007 and Lingkod Bayan Awardee 2007, PGH strives harder facing new and difficult challenges of the next 100 years.
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