COVID-19 bed capacity: 30 of 150 NCR hospitals under critical status — DOH

Portion of two wards at UP-PGH dedicated to COVID-19 patients, which were finished in just five days. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)

MANILA, Philippines — Thirty out of 150 hospitals in Metro Manila were placed under critical status in terms of bed capacity solely for COVID-19 patients while 22 were listed under the high-risk status, based on the latest date from the Department of Health (DOH) as of March 20.

The figure for hospitals classified as critical increased from the previous 23, while hospitals listed under high-risk decreased from 23 last March 17.

Of the hospitals under critical status, 13 have already reached 100 percent bed occupancy, namely:

• A Zarate Hospital
• Bernardino General Hospital I
• Commonwealth Hospital and Medical Center
• East Avenue Medical Center 
• F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation, Inc.
• FEU- Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Inc.
• HolyLife Hospital
• Makati Medical Center
• Metro North Medical Center and Hospital
• Metropolitan Medical Center
• Rosario Maclang Bautista Hospital
• Sta. Ana Hospital
• Unihealth Parañaque Hospital and Medical Center, Inc.

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

Under the critical level, 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 54.3 percent, or 4,460 out of the 8,207 total beds occupied.  

INQUIRER.net analyzed the most available data, which is on March 20, 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. A Zarate Hospital – 100 percent
2. Bernardino General Hospital I – 100 percent
3. Commonwealth Hospital and Medical Center – 100 percent
4. Diliman Doctors Hospital Inc. – 85.3 percent
5. East Avenue Medical Center – 100 percent
6. F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation, Inc. – 100 percent
7. FEU- Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Inc. – 100 percent
8. HolyLife Hospital – 100 percent
9. Las Piñas Doctors Hospital – 93.1 percent
10. Lung Center of the Philippines – 96 percent
11. Makati Medical Center – 100 percent
12. Metro North Medical Center and Hospital – 100 percent
13. Metropolitan Medical Center – 100 percent
14. Ospital ng Makati – 96.8 percent
15. Ospital ng Muntinlupa – 96.7 percent
16. Pacific Global Medical Center – 86.7 percent
17. Pasig City Children’s Hospital Child’s Hope – 96.8 percent
18. Quirino Memorial Medical Center – 87.7 percent
19. Research Institute for Tropical Medicine – 91.3 percent
20. Rosario Maclang Bautista Hospital – 100 percent
21. San Juan De Dios Educational Foundation – 96.7 percent
22. St. Luke’s Medical Center, Taguig – 89.6 percent
23. Sta. Ana Hospital – 100 percent
24. The Medical City – 86.8 percent
25. Unihealth Parañaque Hospital and Medical Center, Inc. – 100 percent
26. University of Perpetual Help Dalta Medical Center, Inc. – 88.6 percent
27. University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital – 91.9 percent
28. Valenzuela Citicare Medical Center Timog Hilaga Providence Group, Inc. – 92.9 percent
29. Victoriano Luna Medical Center – 98.4 percent
30. World Citi Medical Center – 94.4 percent

Ospital ng Makati. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

High-risk

1. Adventist Medical Center – 70.6 percent
2. Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Pateros – 81.3 percent
3. Allied Care Experts (Ace)  Medical Center Quezon City – 83.3 percent
4. Army General Hospital – 80 percent
5. Bernardino General Hospital II – 71.4 percent
6. Cardinal Santos Medical Center – 70.7 percent
7. Chinese General Hospital Medical Center – 71 percent
8. Christ The King Medical Center Unihealth Las Piñas Inc. – 75 percent
9. Dr. Fe Del Mundo Medical Center – 79.5 percent
10. Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center – 83.3 percent
11. Medical Center Manila – 83 percent
12. Medical Center Taguig – 77.8 percent
13. National Children’s Hospital – 72.2 percent
14. National Kidney Transplant Institute – 83.1 percent
15. Novaliches District Hospital – 84.4 percent
16. Ospital ng Malabon – 80 percent
17. Pasay General Hospital – 78.8 percent
18. Philippine Heart Center – 76.9 percent
19. Providence Hospital – 73.3 percent
20. St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City – 81.9 percent
21. Taguig Pateros District Hospital – 76 percent
22. Tondo Medical Center – 73.1 percent

Moderate

1. Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Valenzuela – 61.1 percent
2. Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center – 63 percent
3. Las Piñas City Medical Center – 68 percent
4. Mandaluyong City Medical Center – 67.4 percent
5. Marikina Valley Medical Center – 61.4 percent
6. Mary Johnston Hospital Inc. – 69.2 percent
7. Seamen’s Hospital – 60 percent
8. St. Clare’s Medical Center – 66.7 percent
9. The Premier Medical Center – 68.8 percent
10. VRP Medical Center – 61.1 percent

Safe

1. Air Force General Hospital – 46 percent
2. Alabang Medical Center – No occupied beds
3. Alabang Medical Clinic – 16.7 percent
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. Asian Hospital – 53.6 percent
8. Bermudez PolyClinic Hospital – No occupied beds
9. Calalang General Hospital – No occupied beds
10. Caloocan City Medical Center – 50 percent
11. Capitol Medical Center Inc. – 46.2 percent
12. Cruz-Rabe Maternity and General Hospital – No occupied beds
13. Cure and Care Maternity Hospital OPC – No occupied beds
14. D.T. Protacio Hospital – 25 percent
15. De Los Santos Medical Center – 52.5 percent
16. De Ocampo Memorial Medical Center – No occupied beds
17. Divine Heart Medical Service and Development  Cooperative Hospital – 14.3 percent
18. Dr. Jesus Delgado Memorial Hospital – 56.3 percent
19. Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital – 4 percent
20. Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital – 40.2 percent
21. Dr. Montano G. Ramos General Hospital Corporation – No occupied beds
22. Dr. Sabili Health Services Corporation – No occupied beds
23. E. Zarate Hospital – 50 percent
24. Fairveiw General Hospital – No occupied beds
25. Fatima University Medical Center Corporation – 29.3 percent
26. Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission Inc. Our Lady of Peace Hospital – 55.6 percent
27. Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center – 40.5 percent
28. Gen. Miguel Malvar Medical Research Foundation Inc. – No occupied beds
29. Hospital of the Infant Jesus Medical Center – 27.6 percent
30. JP Sioson General Hospital and Colleges Inc. – No occupied beds
31. Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center – 51.5 percent
32. Justice Jose Abad General Hospital – 15.6 percent
33. Manila Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
34. Manila Naval Hospital – 8.3 percent
35. Marikina Doctors Hospital and Medical Center -m54.5 percent
36. Marikina St. Vincent General Hospital Inc. – 16.7 percent
37. Martinez Memorial Hospital Inc. – No occupied beds
38. Mary Chiles General Hospital Inc. – 49.1 percent
39. MCPC St. Therese of Lisieux Doctors Hospital  – No occupied beds
40. MCU-FDT Medical Foundation Hospital – 50 percent
41. Medical Center Muntinlupa – 56 percent
42. Medical Center Parañaque – 15.8 percent
43. Mission Hospital – 50 percent
44. National Center for Mental Health – 5 percent
45. Navotas City Hospital – 50 percent
46. Nodado General Hospital – No occupied beds
47. North Caloocan Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
48. Novaliches General Hospital – 33.3 percent
49. Olivarez General Hospital – 35 percent
50. Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center -32.2 percent
51. Ospital ng Parañaque – No occupied beds
52. Ospital ng Sampaloc – 58.1 percent
53. Ospital ng Tondo – 46.7 percent
54. Our Lady of Grace Hospital Inc. – No occupied beds
55. Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Inc. – 54.3 percent
56. Pasig City General Hospital – 37.8 percent
57. Pasig Doctors Medical Center Inc. – 56.3 percent
58. Perpetual Succor Hospital and Maternity Inc. – No occupied beds
59. Philippine Children’s Medical Center – 31.3 percent
60. Philippine Orthopedic Center – 50 percent
61. Pope John Paul II Hospital and Medical Center – 37 percent
62. Quezon City General Hospital – 51.5 percent
63. Quezon Institute – No occupied beds
64. Recuenco General Hospital Inc. – No occupied beds
65. Rizal Medical Center – 38.5 percent
66. Salve Regina General Hospital – No occupied beds
67. San Juan Medical Center – 48.9 percent
68. San Lazaro Hospital – 46 percent
69. San Lorenzo Hospital Health Management – 33.3 percent
70. San Lorenzo Ruiz Women’s Hospital – 50 percent
71. SDS Medical Center – 9.1 percent
72. St. Anthony Medical Center of Marikina, Inc. – No occupied beds
73. St. Camillus Medical Center – 53.8 percent
74. St. Jude General Hospital and Medical Center – 20 percent
75. St. Martin de Porres Charity Hospital – No occupied beds
76. St. Victoria Hospital – 28.6 percent
77. Sta. Teresita General Hospital – No occupied beds
78. Tricity Medical Center, Inc. – 45.8 percent
79. Trinity Woman and Child Center “The Birthplace” – No occupied beds
80. U.E.R.M. Memorial Hospital – 56.7 percent
81. UHBI – Parañaque Doctors Hospital, Inc. – 38.1 percent
82. United Doctors Medical Center – No occupied beds
83. University of Santo Tomas Hospital – 24.7 percent
84. Valenzuela Medical Center – 50.8 percent
85. Veterans Memorial Medical Center – 54.7 percent
86. Villarosa Hospital, Inc. – 50 percent
87. VT Maternity Hospital – No occupied beds
88. Word of Hope General Foundation, Inc. – 25 percent

Due to the continuous increase in COVID-19 cases in the country, the Philippine Hospital Association (PHA) on Monday called for a reinforcement of healthcare workers from nurses who are currently employed in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP), and call centers.

According to PHA President Jaime Almora, nurses in hospitals are already exhausted.

The DOH on Sunday recorded 7,757 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total active coronavirus cases in the country to 73,072.

Of the tally, 577,754 patients survived while 12,968 succumbed to the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

The country’s total COVID-19 caseload is 663,794.

On Saturday, the health department reported another all-time high single-day tally of 7,999 new infections in the country.

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