COVID-19 bed capacity: 23 of 150 NCR hospitals under critical status — DOH

MANILA, Philippines — Twenty-three out of 150 hospitals in Metro Manila were placed under critical status in terms of bed capacity solely for COVID-19 patients while 23 others were classified as high-risk status, based on the latest data from the Department of Health (DOH) as of March 17.

The figure for hospitals classified as critical increased from the previous 21, while hospitals listed under high-risk decreased from 27 last March 16.

Of the hospitals under critical status, five have already reached 100 percent bed occupancy, namely:

• Bernardino General Hospital I
• F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation, Inc.
• FEU- Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Inc.
• Metro North Medical Center and Hospital
• Rosario Maclang Bautista Hospital

The DOH classifies occupancy levels for COVID-19 beds in health centers as either critical, high risk, moderate, and safe.

Under the critical status, hospitals have already reached more than 85 percent of its bed occupancy for COVID-19 patients.

Hospitals are classified as high risk if 70 percent but not more than 85 percent of its COVID-19 beds are occupied while those with a COVID-19 bed capacity of from 60 to 70 percent rate are classified as moderate.

Hospitals fall under the safe level if bed utilization rate is less than 60 percent.

The bed occupancy rate for the whole of Metro Manila remains at the safe zone with 53.4 percent, or 4,399 out of the 8,231 total beds occupied.  

INQUIRER.net analyzed the most available data, which is on March 17, 2021, based on the DOH’s COVID-19 tracker.

This article is aimed at showing how prepared Metro Manila hospitals are, should there be a surge in COVID-19 infections.

Only hospitals in Metro Manila, however, that have data on COVID-19 beds allocated for the treatment of coronavirus patients were included in this article.

Critical

1. Air Force General Hospital – 89.4 percent
2. Allied Care Experts (Ace)  Medical Center Quezon City – 96.2 percent
3. Bernardino General Hospital I – 100 percent
4. Commonwealth Hospital and Medical Center – 86.2 percent
5. Diliman Doctors Hospital Inc. – 88.4 percent
6. East Avenue Medical Center – 94.6 percent
7. F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation, Inc. – 100 percent
8. FEU- Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Inc. – 100 percent
9. Makati Medical Center – 92.5 percent
10. Mandaluyong City Medical Center – 91.3 percent
11. Medical Center Manila – 85.1 percent
12. Medical Center Muntinlupa – 88 percent
13. Metro North Medical Center and Hospital – 100 percent
14. Ospital ng Makati – 85.7 percent
15. Ospital ng Muntinlupa – 96.6 percent
16. Pacific Global Medical Center – 85.7 percent
17. Rosario Maclang Bautista Hospital – 100 percent
18. San Juan De Dios Educational Foundation – 97 percent
19. Sta. Ana Hospital – 98.5 percent
20. Unihealth Parañaque Hospital and Medical Center, Inc. – 88.9 percent
21. Valenzuela Citicare Medical Center Timog Hilaga Providence Group, Inc. – 85.7 percent
22. Veterans Memorial Medical Center – 92.2 percent
23. Victoriano Luna Medical Center – 97.6 percent

Ospital ng Makati. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

High-risk

1. Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Pateros – 82.4 percent
2. Army General Hospital – 73.6 percent
3. Bernardino General Hospital II – 71.4 percent
4. Capitol Medical Center Inc. – 84.4 percent
5. Cardinal Santos Medical Center – 72.3 percent
6. Chinese General Hospital Medical Center – 79.2 percent
7. Lung Center of the Philippines – 80 percent
8. Mary Johnston Hospital Inc. – 73.1 percent
9. Medical Center Taguig – 72.2 percent
10. Ospital ng Malabon – 77.4 percent
11. Pasig City Children’s Hospital Child’s Hope – 72.7 percent
12. Philippine Heart Center – 79.6 percent
13. Philippine Orthopedic Center – 83.3 percent
14. Quirino Memorial Medical Center – 80.4 percent
15. St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City – 80.2 percent
16. St. Luke’s Medical Center, Taguig – 83.9 percent
17. The Medical City – 84.8 percent
18. The Premier Medical Center – 75 percent
19. Tondo Medical Center – 70.6 percent
20. Trinity Woman and Child Center “The Birthplace” – 80 percent
21. University of Perpetual Help Dalta Medical Center, Inc. – 77.1 percent
22. University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital – 84.1 percent
23. World Citi Medical Center – 75.7 percent

Facade of the UP – Philippine General Hospital. (Image from the PGH website)

Moderate

1. Adventist Medical Center – 68 percent
2. De Los Santos Medical Center – 65 percent
3. Dr. Fe Del Mundo Medical Center – 67.7 percent
4. E. Zarate Hospital – 66.7 percent
5. Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center – 61.8 percent
6. National Children’s Hospital – 67.8 percent
7. National Kidney Transplant Institute – 68.6 percent
8. Navotas City Hospital – 64.3 percent
9. Novaliches District Hospital – 65.6 percent
10. Ospital ng Sampaloc – 67.7 percent
11. Pasay General Hospital – 69.6 percent
12. Providence Hospital – 60 percent
13. Research Institute for Tropical Medicine – 66.7 percent
14. San Juan Medical Center – 60 percent
15. St. Clare’s Medical Center – 66.7 percent
16. Taguig Pateros District Hospital – 63.7 percent
17. VRP Medical Center – 61.1 percent

Safe

1. A Zarate Hospital – 40 percent
2. Alabang Medical Center – No occupied beds
3. Alabang Medical Clinic – No occupied beds
4. Alabang Medical Clinic Las Piñas branch – 12.5 percent
5. Alabang Medical Clinic Muntinlupa – No occupied beds
6. Alfonso Specialist Hospital – No occupied beds
7. Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Valenzuela – 58.8 percent
8. Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center – 55.4 percent
9. Asian Hospital – 58 percent
10. Bermudez PolyClinic Hospital – No occupied beds
11. Calalang General Hospital – No occupied beds
12. Caloocan City Medical Center – 48.5 percent
13. Christ The King Medical Center Unihealth Las Piñas Inc. – 50 percent
14. Cruz-Rabe Maternity and General Hospital – No occupied beds
15. Cure and Care Maternity Hospital OPC – No occupied beds
16. D.T. Protacio Hospital – No occupied beds
17. De Ocampo Memorial Medical Center – No occupied beds
18. Divine Heart Medical Service and Development Cooperative Hospital – No occupied beds
19. Dr. Jesus Delgado Memorial Hospital – 43.8 percent
20. Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital – 7.8 percent
21. Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital – 50.7 percent
22. Dr. Montano G. Ramos General Hospital Corporation – No occupied beds
23. Dr. Sabili Health Services Corporation – No occupied beds
24. Fairveiw General Hospital – No occupied beds
25. Fatima University Medical Center Corporation – 37.9 percent
26. Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission Inc. Our Lady of Peace Hospital – 11.1 percent
27. Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center – 41.8 percent
28. Gen. Miguel Malvar Medical Research Foundation Inc. – No occupied beds
29. Hospital of the Infant Jesus Medical Center – 41.2 percent
30. JP Sioson General Hospital and Colleges Inc. – No occupied beds
31. Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center – 48.9 percent
32. Justice Jose Abad General Hospital – 17.8 percent
33. Las Piñas City Medical Center – 40 percent
34. Las Piñas Doctors Hospital – 53.1 percent
35. Manila Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
36. Manila Naval Hospital – 25 percent
37. Marikina Doctors Hospital and Medical Center – 54.5 percent
38. Marikina St. Vincent General Hospital Inc. – 33.3 percent
39. Marikina Valley Medical Center – 47.7 percent
40. Martinez Memorial Hospital Inc. – No occupied beds
41. Mary Chiles General Hospital Inc. – 50 percent
42. MCPC St. Therese of Lisieux Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
43. MCU-FDT Medical Foundation Hospital – 43.8 percent
44. Medical Center Parañaque – 5.9 percent
45. Metropolitan Medical Center – 48.1 percent
46. Mission Hospital – 14.3 percent
47. National Center for Mental Health – 3.1 percent
48. Nodado General Hospital – No occupied beds
49. North Caloocan Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
50. Novaliches General Hospital – 58.3 percent
51. Olivarez General Hospital – 35 percent
52. Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center – 27.8 percent
53. Ospital ng Parañaque – No occupied beds
54. Ospital ng Tondo – 33.3 percent
55. Our Lady of Grace Hospital Inc. – No occupied beds
56. Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Inc. – 56.5 percent
57. Pasig City General Hospital – 22.2 percent
58. Pasig Doctors Medical Center Inc. – 31.3 percent
59. Perpetual Succor Hospital and Maternity Inc. – No occupied beds
60. Philippine Children’s Medical Center -35.4 percent
61. Pope John Paul II Hospital and Medical Center – 36.4 percent
62. Queensberry Hospital – No occupied beds
63. Quezon City General Hospital – 47.5 percent
64. Quezon Institute – No occupied beds
65. Recuenco General Hospital Inc. – No occupied beds
66. Rizal Medical Center – 35.9 percent
67. Salve Regina General Hospital – No occupied beds
68. San Lazaro Hospital – 37.3 percent
69. San Lorenzo Hospital Health Management – No occupied beds
70. San Lorenzo Ruiz Women’s Hospital – 42.3 percent
71. SDS Medical Center – 36.4 percent
72. Seamen’s Hospital – 50 percent
73. St. Anthony Medical Center of Marikina, Inc. – No occupied beds
74. St. Camillus Medical Center – 7.7 percent
75. St. Jude General Hospital and Medical Center – 30 percent
76. St. Martin de Porres Charity Hospital – No occupied beds
77. St. Victoria Hospital – 28.6 percent
78. Sta. Teresita General Hospital – No occupied beds
79. Tricity Medical Center, Inc. – 46.7 percent
80. U.E.R.M. Memorial Hospital – 50 percent
81. UHBI – Parañaque Doctors Hospital, Inc. – 40.9 percent
82. United Doctors Medical Center – No occupied beds
83. University of Santo Tomas Hospital – 27.8 percent
84. Valenzuela Medical Center – 32.8 percent
85. Villarosa Hospital, Inc. – No occupied beds
86. VT Maternity Hospital – No occupied beds
87. Word of Hope General Foundation, Inc. – No occupied beds

The DOH earlier described the occupancy rate of the intensive-care unit beds for COVID-19 patients in Meto Manila hospitals as “alarming.”

Meanwhile, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno has warned the public on the rising occupancy rate in private hospitals caused by the latest COVID-19 surge.

In the mayor’s Facebook live broadcast on Thursday, he bared that some hospitals in Metro Manila have already reached their full capacity and potential patients might no longer be accommodated.

“Ishe-share ko lang sa inyo ang mga impormasyong nakalap ko through some friends at mga kakilala, na ang ibang mga private hospitals ay puno na rin po,” the local executive said.

(I’d like to share some information I received from friends and acquaintances that some private hospitals have already surpassed their COVID-19 bed capacity.)

“So ano po’ng ibig sabihin?  Kahit ika’y may pera o wala, maaaring hindi ka ma-accomodate sa loob ng ospital.  Kaya mag-iingat, mga kababayan, mag-iingat po kayo,” he added.

(So, what does this imply? It means that even though you have enough the financial means, you may not be admitted in some hospitals. Hence, we should always be careful.)

The health department on Thursday recorded 5,290 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total active coronavirus cases in the country to 66,567.

Of the tally, 561,530 patients survived while 12,887 succumbed to the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

The country’s total COVID-19 caseload is 640,984.

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