13 of 130 Metro hospitals in ‘critical’ zone as DOH revises COVID-19 bed occupancy levels

By: Consuelo Marquez, Katrina Hallare - @inquirerdotnet

INQUIRER.net / 04:13 PM October 30, 2020

Hospital COVID-19 bed occupancy rate for the whole of Metro Manila is at 41.5 percent, as of Oct. 28, 2020. /DOH COVID-19 tracker

MANILA, Philippines — Thirteen out of 130 hospitals in the National Capital Region are in the “critical zone” for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) facilities while the Department of Health (DOH) modifies its classification for the utilization rate of COVID-19 beds, recent records from the health agency showed.

Of the 13 hospitals in the “critical” zone, seven have reached a 100 percent utilization rate in their COVID-19 facilities: Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Valenzuela, Alabang Medical Clinic, Bernardino General Hospital I, Bernardino General Hospital II, Holy Life Hospital, Mary Chiles General Hospital Inc., and the Novaliches District Hospital.

Meanwhile, the DOH also revised its classification for occupancy of COVID-19 beds in health centers to critical, high risk, moderate and safe from the previous classification of danger, warning, and safe levels.

With these new classifications, the DOH said hospitals that are in the critical zone have a bed occupancy rate of more than 85 percent.

“High risk” health facilities are those with an occupancy rate of 70 percent but is not more than 85 percent.

Hospitals that are in the moderate level have a 60 percent up to less than 70-bed occupancy percentage.

Hospitals with a “safe” classification mean that their bed utilization rate is less than 60 percent. It also means they are not in danger in case of a surge of COVID-19 cases.

Compared to the previous classification, a hospital is “safe” if the occupancy rate is equal or less than 30 percent.

Hospitals are identified as in a “warning” level if their COVID-19 beds are 30 to 70 percent occupied. Lastly, a “danger” level means that the bed occupancy rate has reached more than 70 percent.

The changes in classification were approved by the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID), DOH health promotions, and communications service director Dr. Beverly Ho said.

“This classification is of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases and this was approved last Sept. 30,” Ho told reporters in a DOH online media briefing this Friday.

For the whole of Metro Manila, the bed occupancy rate was downgraded to a “safe” level with 41.5 percent as 2,809 out of 6,772 total beds are utilized.

Last Oct. 21, the bed occupancy rate of Metro Manila hospitals were classified as “warning level” with 43.7 percent as 2,982 beds out of 6,827 total beds are occupied.

INQUIRER.net analyzed the most available data, dated Oct. 28, 2020, based on the DOH COVID-19 tracker.

The story aims to show the preparedness of hospitals in Metro Manila if there is a sudden increase in coronavirus cases. However, only hospitals in Metro Manila that have data on COVID-19 beds allocated for coronavirus patients were included in this story.

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Also, the data only records hospital beds solely for COVID-19 patients and not the overall total hospital beds.

Critical

Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Valenzuela – 100 percent
Alabang Medical Clinic – 100 percent
Bernardino General Hospital I – 100 percent
Bernardino General Hospital II – 100 percent
Holy Life Hospital – 100 percent
Las Piñas City Medical Center – 88 percent
Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center – 85.9 percent
Mary Chiles General Hospital Inc. – 100 percent
National Kidney Transplant Institute – 90.5 percent
Novaliches District Hospital – 100 percent
Philippine Heart Center – 86.7 percent
Taguig Pateros District Hospital – 86.8 percent
Victoriano Luna Medical Center – 95.6 percent

High risk

Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Pateros – 81.3 percent
Asian Hospital – 78.9 percent
East Avenue Medical Center – 72.6 percent
Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center – 71.1 percent
Makati Medical Center – 73.9 percent
National Children’s Hospital – 80.6 percent
Ospital ng Muntinlupa – 83.3 percent
St. Victoria Hospital – 71.4 percent

Moderate

Capitol Medical Center Inc. – 66.7 percent
Mandaluyong City Medical Center – 60 percent
Marikina St. Vincent General Hospital Inc. – 60 percent
Ospital ng Makati – 61.7 percent
Rizal Medical Center – 69.2 percent
Tricity Medical Center, Inc. – 62.5 percent
University of Perpetual Help Dalta Medical Center, Inc. – 69.2 percent
Veterans Memorial Medical Center – 65.7 percent

Safe

A Zarate Hospital – 50 percent
Adventist Medical Center – 28 percent
Air Force General Hospital – 39.8 percent
Alabang Medical Clinic Las Piñas branch – 12.5 percent
Alabang Medical Center – No occupied beds
Alabang Medical Clinic Muntinlupa – No occupied beds
Alfonso Specialist Hospital – No occupied beds
Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Quezon City – 57.9 percent
Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center – 39 percent
Beato Caulian Hospital – No occupied beds
Bermudez Polyclinic Hospital – No occupied beds
Caloocan City Medical Center – 35.6 percent
Cardinal Santos Medical Center – 38.5 percent
Chinese General Hospital Medical Center – 28.9 percent
Christ The King Medical Center Unihealth Las Piñas Inc. – 25 percent
Commonwealth Hospital and Medical Center – 43.7 percent
D.T. Protacio Hospital – No occupied beds
De Los Santos Medical Center – 10.5 percent
De Ocampo Memorial Medical Center – No occupied beds
Diliman Doctors Hospital Inc. – 23.1 percent
Dr. Fe Del Mundo Medical Center – 19.4 percent
Dr. Jesus Delgado Memorial Hospital – 6.3 percent
Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital – 11.8 percent
Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital – 19.4 percent
Dr. Montano G. Ramos General Hospital Corporation – No occupied beds
Dr. Victor R. Potenciano Medical Center – 48.8 percent
E. Zarate Hospital – 33.3 percent
F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation, Inc. – 50 percent
Fatima University Medical Center Corporation – 14.3 percent
FEU- Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Inc. – 44.4 percent
Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission Inc. Our Lady of Peace Hospital – No occupied beds
Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center – 47.5 percent
Gen. Miguel Malvar Medical Research Foundation Inc. – No occupied beds
Hospital of the Infant Jesus Medical Center – 50 percent
Justice Jose Abad General Hospital – 37.5 percent
Las Piñas Doctors Hospital – 57.9 percent
Lung Center of the Philippines – 52.3 percent
Manila Doctors Hospital – 10 percent
Manila Naval Hospital – No occupied beds
Marikina Doctors Hospital and Medical Center – 33.3 percent
Marikina Valley Medical Center – 40.5 percent
Mary Johnston Hospital Inc. – 37.5 percent
MCPC St. Therese of Lisieux Doctors Hospital -No occupied beds
MCU-FDT Medical Foundation Hospital – 50 percent
Medical Center Manila – 29.8 percent
Medical Center Muntinlupa – 50 percent
Medical Center Taguig – 8 percent
Medical Center Parañaque – No occupied beds
Metro-North Medical Center and Hospital – 45.5 percent
Metropolitan Medical Center – 28.3 percent
Mission Hospital – 40 percent
National Center for Mental Health – 4.8 percent
Navotas City Hospital – 28.6 percent
Novaliches General Hospital – 20 percent
Olivarez General Hospital – 50 percent
Ospital ng Malabon – 23.3 percent
Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center – 15.7 percent
Ospital ng Sampaloc – 33.3 percent
Ospital ng Tondo – 40 percent
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Inc. – 13 percent
Pacific Global Medical Center – 50 percent
Pasay General Hospital – 24 percent
Pasig City Children’s Hospital Child’s Hope – 45.2 percent
Pasig City General Hospital – 50 percent
Pasig Doctors Medical Center Inc. – 25 percent
Perpetual Succor Hospital and Maternity Inc. – No occupied beds
Philippine Heart Center – 29.2 percent
Philippine Orthopedic Center – 4.5 percent
Pope John Paul II Hospital and Medical Center – 8.7 percent
Providence Hospital – 50 percent
Quezon City General Hospital – 26.7 percent
Quirino Memorial Medical Center – 55.8 percent
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine – 16.1 percent
Rosario Maclang Bautista Hospital – 50 percent
Salve Regina General Hospital – No occupied beds
San Juan De Dios Educational Foundation – 36.7 percent
San Juan Medical Center – 51.2 percent
San Lazaro Hospital – 24 percent
San Lorenzo Hospital Health Management – No occupied beds
San Lorenzo Ruiz Women’s Hospital – 32.5 percent
SDS Medical Center – 9.1 percent
Seamen’s Hospital – No occupied beds
St. Camillus Medical Center – 30.8 percent
St. Clare’s Medical Center – 16.7 percent
St. Jude General Hospital and Medical Center – 10 percent
St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City – 15.5 percent
St. Luke’s Medical Center, Taguig – 40 percent
Sta. Ana Hospital – 37.5 percent
The Medical City – 50.7 percent
The Premier Medical Center – No occupied beds
Tondo Medical Center – 51.5 percent
U.E.R.M. Memorial Hospital – 57.5 percent
UHBI – Parañaque Doctors Hospital, Inc. – 27.8 percent
Unihealth Parañaque Hospital and Medical Center, Inc. – 39.5 percent
United Doctors Medical Center – No occupied beds
University of Santo Tomas Hospital – 51.7 percent
University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital – 48.6 percent
Valenzuela Citicare Medical Center Timog Hilaga Providence Group, Inc. – 20 percent
Valenzuela Medical Center – 45.9 percent
VT Maternity Hospital – No occupied beds
VT Maternity Hospital – 42.1 percent

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