DOH tracker: 27 Metro Manila COVID-19 hospitals at ‘danger’ level as of Oct 6

By: Consuelo Marquez, Katrina Hallare - 4 years ago

MANILA, Philippines — Some 27 of the 126 Metro Manila hospitals catering to COVID-19 patients were categorized under the “danger” level as of October 6 due to shrinking bed capacity, the Department of Health (DOH) has shown.

This while total bed capacity for the whole of Metro Manila remains at the “warning” level with 52.6 percent or 3,369 of 6,408 COVID-19 beds currently occupied.

DOH explained that the “danger” level means beds for COVID-19 patients in hospitals have more than 70 percent occupancy. These hospitals, it added, are vulnerable to reaching full capacity in case there is a surge of COVID-19 cases in their areas.

On the other hand, a “warning” level means that hospitals have a 30 percent to 70 percent utilization rate while hospitals tagged as “safe” are those that have less than 30 percent bed occupancies.

Of the 27 hospitals declared under the “danger” level, eight were recorded to have reached 100 percent bed occupancy. These were the Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Valenzuela, Mary Chiles General Hospital Inc., National Center for Mental Health, Rosario Maclang Bautista Hospital, SDS Medical Center, Taguig Pateros District Hospital, University of Santo Tomas Hospital, and Victoriano Luna Medical Center.

This table lifted from ncovtracker.doh.gov.ph shows the COVID-19 bed capacity of Metro Manila hospitals as of October 6, 2020.

INQUIRER.net used DOH’s most available data, dated October 6, 2020, posted in its COVID-19 tracker as the basis for this analysis.

It should be noted that the latest data excludes information from 10 medical facilities namely, Alabang Medical Clinic Muntinlupa, Cabarles Maternity Medical and Children’s Clinic, Caloocan City North Medical Center, Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo Hospital, Jesus Immaculate Concepcion Hospital, Taguig Doctors Hospital, University of the Philippines Health Service, Valenzuela City Emergency Hospital, Vian Family Hospital II, and Villarosa Hospital, Inc.

It was unclear whether these hospitals were removed from DOH’s list of 136 COVID-19 hospitals in Metro Manila (as of September 30) or simply do not have any information available at this time. Nevertheless, INQUIRER.net has sought clarification regarding the matter from DOH, which has yet to respond as of this posting.

INQUIRER.net’s analysis tries to provide a picture of how prepared COVID-19 hospitals in Metro Manila would be in case of a sudden increase in new coronavirus cases. But only hospitals in Metro Manila that have available data on beds allocated for COVID-19 atients were included in this story.

Below is the breakdown of hospitals categorized as under “danger,” “warning,” and “safe” levels:

‘Danger’

Adventist Medical Center – 72.7 percent
Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Valenzuela – 100 percent
Asian Hospital – 85.4 percent
East Avenue Medical Center – 76.3 percent
F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation, Inc. – 95.5 percent
Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center – 87 percent
Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center – 92.9 percent
Lung Center of the Philippines – 72.1 percent
Makati Medical Center – 88.4 percent
Mary Chiles General Hospital Inc. – 100 percent
MCU-FDT Medical Foundation Hospital – 87.5 percent
Medical Center Muntinlupa – 85.7 percent
Medical Center Taguig – 88.9 percent
National Center for Mental Health – 100 percent
National Kidney Transplant Institute – 92.8 percent
Ospital ng Muntinlupa – 88.2 percent
Pacific Global Medical Center – 75 percent
Philippine Children’s Medical Center – 93.3 percent
Providence Hospital – 81.3 percent
Rosario Maclang Bautista Hospital – 100 percent
SDS Medical Center – 100 percent
St. Victoria Hospital – 71.4 percent
Taguig Pateros District Hospital – 100 percent
University of Perpetual Help Dalta Medical Center, Inc. – 88.2 percent
University of Santo Tomas Hospital – 100 percent
Veterans Memorial Medical Center – 86.6 percent
Victoriano Luna Medical Center – 100 percent

‘Warning’

A Zarate Hospital – 50 percent
Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Pateros – 37.5 percent
Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center – 63.5 percent
Caloocan City Medical Center – 33.3 percent
Capitol Medical Center Inc. – 65.8 percent
Cardinal Santos Medical Center – 40.4 percent
Chinese General Hospital Medical Center – 37.2 percent
Commonwealth Hospital and Medical Center – 43.7 percent
Diliman Doctors Hospital Inc. – 30.8 percent
Dr. Jesus Delgado Memorial Hospital – 43.8 percent
Dr. Victor R. Potenciano Medical Center – 53.7 percent
E. Zarate Hospital – 33.3 percent
Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center – 57.5 percent
Hospital of the Infant Jesus Medical Center – 33.3 percent
Las Piñas City Medical Center – 57.7 percent
Las Piñas Doctors Hospital – 61.1 percent
Mandaluyong City Medical Center – 59.7 percent
Manila Doctors Hospital – 40 percent
Marikina Valley Medical Center – 52.5 percent
Mary Johnston Hospital Inc. – 34.5 percent
Metro North Medical Center and Hospital – 64 percent
Metropolitan Medical Center – 37.7 percent
Mission Hospital – 33.3 percent
National Children’s Hospital – 45.1 percent
Navotas City Hospital – 38.1 percent
Novaliches District Hospital – 56.3 percent
Ospital ng Makati – 60.7 percent
Ospital ng Sampaloc – 38.9 percent
Ospital ng Tondo – 46.2 percent
Pasay General Hospital – 34 percent
Pasig City Children’s Hospital Child’s Hope – 59.3 percent
Pasig City General Hospital – 57.1 percent
Pasig Doctors Medical Center Inc. – 43.8 percent
Philippine Heart Center – 57.4 percent
Quezon City General Hospital – 58.4 percent
Quirino Memorial Medical Center – 47.6 percent
Rizal Medical Center – 57.3 percent
San Juan De Dios Educational Foundation – 60 percent
San Juan Medical Center – 30.2 percent
San Lazaro Hospital – 36.5 percent
Seamen’s Hospital – 42.9 percent
St. Camillus Medical Center – 46.2 percent
St. Luke’s Medical Center, Taguig – 48.5 percent
Sta. Ana Hospital – 45.6 percent
The Medical City – 48.6 percent
Tondo Medical Center – 41.4 percent
Tricity Medical Center, Inc. – 58.3 percent
U.E.R.M. Memorial Hospital – 47.2 percent
UHBI – Parañaque Doctors Hospital, Inc. – 50 percent
University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital – 52.8 percent
Valenzuela Citicare Medical Center Timog Hilaga Providence Group, Inc. – 50 percent
Valenzuela Medical Center – 45.9 percent
World Citi Medical Center – 31.4 percent

‘Safe’

Air Force General Hospital – 16.5 percent
Alabang Medical Clinic Las Piñas branch – No occupied beds
Alfonso Specialist Hospital – No occupied beds
Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Quezon City – 5.6 percent
Beato Caulian Hospital – No occupied beds
Bermudez PolyClinic Hospital – No occupied beds
Bernardino General Hospital I – 25 percent
Bernardino General Hospital II – 28.6 percent
Christ The King Medical Center Unihealth Las Piñas Inc. – No occupied beds
D.T. Protacio Hospital – No occupied beds
De Los Santos Medical Center – 17.9 percent
De Ocampo Memorial Medical Center – No occupied beds
Dr. Fe Del Mundo Medical Center – 22.2 percent
Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital – 12.8 percent
Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital – 23.2 percent
Dr. Montano G. Ramos General Hospital Corporation – No occupied beds
Fatima University Medical Center Corporation – 14.3 percent
FEU- Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Inc. – 27.8 percent
Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission Inc. Our Lady of Peace Hospital – 22.2 percent
Gen. Miguel Malvar Medical Research Foundation Inc. – No occupied beds
HolyLife Hospital – No occupied beds
Justice Jose Abad General Hospital – 6.3 percent
Manila Naval Hospital – No occupied beds
Marikina Doctors Hospital and Medical Center – No occupied beds
Marikina St. Vincent General Hospital Inc. – 20 percent
MCPC St. Therese of Lisieux Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
Medical Center Manila – 25.5 percent
Medical Center Parañaque – No occupied beds
Novaliches General Hospital – 20 percent
Olivarez General Hospital – 20 percent
Ospital ng Malabon – 30 percent
Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center – 29.4 percent
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Inc. – 19.6 percent
Philippine Orthopedic Center – 9.1 percent
Pope John Paul II Hospital and Medical Center – 30 percent
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine – 26.9 percent
Salve Regina General Hospital – No occupied beds
San Lorenzo Hospital Health Management – No occupied beds
San Lorenzo Ruiz Women’s Hospital – 27.5 percent
St. Clare’s Medical Center – 28.6 percent
St. Jude General Hospital and Medical Center – No occupied beds
St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City – 25 percent
The Premier Medical Center – No occupied beds
Unihealth Parañaque Hospital and Medical Center, Inc. – 28.1 percent
United Doctors Medical Center – No occupied beds
VT Maternity Hospital – No occupied beds

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